Misphonia by Dana Vowinckel
(HarperVia)
May 6, 2025
DANA VOWINCKEL’S DEBUT NOVEL, The World in a Ziplock Bag, is told from the perspective of a 15-year-old Jewish girl named Margarita, whose life careens from Jerusalem to Berlin to Chicago —much like the author’s. After she won a major German literary prize for that book, publishers decided to make the story more available to international audiences. Margarita’s father works as a synagogue cantor in Germany while her mother long ago departed for Israel; amidst the domestic chaos, she’s sent to live with her grandparents in America. Marc Weisblott
