“Everyone talks about inventing their own language, but Mario Bellatin actually does it”
Francisco Goldman
Conceived of as a set of fragmentary manuscripts from an unpublished Joseph Roth novel, "Jacob the Mutant" is a novella in a perpetual state of transformation -- a story about a man named Jacob, an ersatz rabbi and owner of a roadside tavern. But when reality shifts, so does Jacob, mutating into another person entirely.
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