BLOOMS

Contrasted with the harsh Maine winters of the early nineteenth century, BLOOMS offers a gripping historical fiction novel through which the ancestral story of the reclusive Bloom family's existence, as governed by traditions and their inexplicably indestructable familial connection, comes to the fore. The Bloom family, recognized by their "guarded" life patterns and their "sacred" position as the local "midwives," operates under certain "guidelines" which shield and jeopardize them simultaneously in a community that "fears what it does not know."
At the center of this tale are Elisabeth Sue and John Mason Blooms, whose struggle from exile and persecution to the promise of a fresh start explores the price of legacy and the strength to redefine it. Through these secrets that are transmitted alongside their faith, love, and sorrow, the Blooms are faced with the question of what must be concealed and what must be finally revealed.
Extremely rich in emotional substance, in historical details and spiritual insights, BLOOMS is a thoroughly moving family saga of identity and the transformative message of love.
This book is the epitome of what Historical Fiction and Family Saga novels are all about and what Folktale/Folk Fiction novels aimed at people of the Jewish Faith are all about as it proposes the following question:
"What will you pass down and what will you want."