Isaac, based on a true story, follows the epic journey of young boy from near-death to ultimate triumph as a man. It is as harrowing as "The Revenant." In parable-like prose, it captures Isaac's miraculous survival of the Nazi massacre of his family and his escape alone into a vast, nightmarish European Forest. After being saved by his friend, Pietka, a gentile from near his village, he joins the Russian Partisans and falls in love with Ducia, a Russian Partisan Nurse. I was immediately drawn into the plight of this brave young man as he learns how love and friendship can overcome the memories of hatred, discrimination, and terrible loss. This is a masterful coming-of-age novel amid the horrors and passions of war. Dick Allen, author of Present Vanishing, Ode to the Cold War, This Shadowy Place, and Connecticut State Poet Laureate (2010-2015)

Isaac narrates the story of a young Jew from Rovno whose wartime survival among partisan fighters in the forests of eastern Europe is grippingly told from first page to last. For their sheer terror, the descriptions of Isaac's ordeals match those in Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird and some of Aharon Appelfeld's fiction. Readers drawn to tales of human resiliency against all odds will find this a compelling novel. Alvin H. Rosenfeld, author of A Double Dying, one of the seminal books on Holocaust Literature; Professor of English and Jewish Studies at Indiana University.