Simi Monheit
Author of The Goldie Standard, named one of Kirkus Reviews' 100 Best Indie Books of 2024, and Holy Shift, a novel about tradition, family, technology, and the code we write for ourselves.
“Simi Monheit’s genius is to slowly reveal the complexity behind a stereo type..."
—Yossi Klein Halevi, author of Like Dreamers, winner of the Jewish Book Council’s Everett Book of the Year Award
HOLY SHIFT
The Novel
...arriving April 6, 2027
Chana-Malka lives by codes: the ones dictated by her Orthodox Jewish upbringing, and the ones she writes as a computer scientist. She can debug software, but when it comes to forbidden desires, family expectations, and the chaos of her own heart, she’s stuck in an infinite loop. When Chana-Malka’s worlds collide, sex doesn’t liberate her. Religion doesn’t protect her. AI doesn’t save her. Family doesn’t rescue her. With humor, heart, and a whole lot of chaos, Chana-Malka must learn how to write her own code. Because some crashes aren’t just inevitable—they’re transformative.
Praise for The Goldie Standard
Kirkus Starred Review:
Goldie is a spellbinding protagonist, full of dudgeon and crabby insights into all things newfangled. Monheit’s sparkling prose poetically and humorously conveys the collision of romantic dreams with crotchety reality.
Yossi Klein Halevi, author of Like Dreamers
In Goldie Mandell, we have a new Jewish heroine—acerbic without
bitterness, tender without sentimentality. “Who knew what I had to say was
so interesting?” says one of the most memorable characters in contemporary
Jewish fiction. A book of pure delight.”
Katie Noah Gibson, for Shelf Awareness
The Goldie Standard is both a highly entertaining comedy and a deeper story about faith, complicated histories, identity, and love.