On Ada: Mark Haber in conversation with Nathan Goldman

Join Jewish Currents on Thursday, August 6th at 3 pm ET for a virtual conversation between deputy editor Nathan Goldman and novelist Mark Haber, whose lively and uproarious new novel Ada examines the derangement of dictators.

In a remote country in Europe, Gerard Desacroux IV, petty tyrant and French nationalist, wants nothing more than to be reunited with Ada, the object of his desire ever since their brief fling in Paris years before. Though Ada is on her way to visit, there are the unfortunate matters of civil unrest, assassination attempts, and Ada’s affluent (and highly inconvenient) husband to contend with before bliss is attained. Despite it all, Desacroux IV is determined that nothing—neither war, nor ominous weather, nor the rising swell of indignant peasants—shall stand between him and Ada. Told with Mark Haber’s trademark exuberant absurdity, Ada is a comedy about the mania of power, unrequited love, and the solitude of authority.

In this conversation, we’ll discuss the novel’s resonances with the present, its startling Jewishness, and where it sits in Haber’s impressive oeuvre.

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Mark Haber is an award-winning novelist and the author of Reinhardt’s Garden, Saint Sebastian’s Abyss, Lesser Ruins, and most recently, Ada. Mark’s fiction has appeared in Guernica, Southwest Review and Literary Hub, among others.

Nathan Goldman is a senior editor at Jewish Currents.