Moon
in Bastet
by
E.S. Danon
Genre:
Fantasy, Magical Realism
A
memoir turned into thrilling fiction; Moon in Bastet is based on the
life of author E. S. Danon. The story follows a fourteen-year-old
girl named Eva, an orphan living in the Negev desert of Israel who is
working as a custodian of Cirque Du Christianisme.
Her
life is controlled by a volatile drunk named Bella who favors a group
of equally volatile teenage bullies, the Christian boys. Bullied,
neglected, and alone - Eva's only friends are an odd,
thirteen-year-old Sephardic boy named Jack and a small cohort of
Bedouin sister-wives.
On
the brink of giving up on life, Eva stumbles upon a mysterious cat in
the middle of the desert. Or really, did the cat stumble upon her?
Filled with mystery, magic, and symbolism - Moon in Bastet is a story
of resilience, survivorship, forgiveness, and women
empowerment.
This
is a work filled with Jewish mysticism that can be enjoyed by people
of all races, ages, and religions everywhere.
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Elizabeth Danon
received her B.S. in Marine Science from Stony Brook
University before working as a Marine Biologist for
the National Marine Fisheries Service. She traveled the
U.S. Eastern Seaboard and Gulf of Mexico: collecting data aboard
commercial fishing vessels and dredges.
When that didn’t pan
out to be the glorified job that she expected, finding herself
covered in shark snot and fish scales daily, Elizabeth became a
technical writer. In her spare time, she began doing standup comedy
after taking comedy bootcamp with the Armed Services Arts
Partnership. At this time, she married the most wonderful man who
also provides most of her joke writing material. Unfortunately,
because he’s Indian he has also enabled her Maggi addiction… Like
she needed that on top of her already long-standing iced coffee
issues.
Her favorite show
is Schitt’s Creek, as she feels a special bond to her
fellow comedians – and Sephardic brethren. Growing up half-Jewish
herself, Elizabeth eventually converted to being full-Jewish with
Temple Israel as a student of Rabbi Panitz.
Her enriched, but
complicated, heritage has been an inspiration for most of her
creative writing. Being an Aries, she has always felt like a leader
and has therefore integrated her feminist beliefs into her work,
albeit dropping every women’s studies course that she ever elected
in college. Additionally, her writing has an unmistakable
international presence. Elizabeth wanted to discover as much as she
could about her Sephardic Heritage and went on Birthright,
followed by her independent travels to over ten other countries…
carrying nothing but a red bookbag.
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