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One Little Goat by Dara Horn

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One Little Goat

A Passover Catastrophe

Dara Horn

WW Norton · Print & ebook · February 25, 2025

Reading lane: Holidays & Celebrations / Passover

A family sits at the Passover seder table, but cannot find their afikoman—the hidden matzah required to end the meal—and as a result, they are trapped at a seder that cannot end.

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Why This Clicks

Seder Time Warp

A wisecracking goat brings comic mischief to a Passover tale layered with centuries of seders.

Come here for

  • Passover tradition with a mischievous, storybook twist
  • A talking goat with plenty of wisecracks

Expect

  • A journey through centuries of previous seders
  • Questions that matter as much as answers

Book Details

Authors
Dara Horn
Publisher
WW Norton
Published
February 25, 2025
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Holidays & Celebrations / Passover · Jewish Religious Stories
Reading lane
Holidays & Celebrations / Passover

Affinity

Publisher Categories

  • Comics & Graphic Nonfiction

  • Holidays & Celebrations / Passover

  • Jewish Religious Stories

About This Book

A family sits at the Passover seder table, but cannot find their afikoman—the hidden matzah required to end the meal—and as a result, they are trapped at a seder that cannot end. Six months in, a wisecracking talking goat shows up at their door with bad news: Thousands of years of previous seders have accumulated underneath their seder, and their afikoman is stuck in one of them. Now the family’s “wise child” must travel down with the goat through centuries of previous Passo...

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A family sits at the Passover seder table, but cannot find their afikoman—the hidden matzah required to end the meal—and as a result, they are trapped at a seder that cannot end. Six months in, a wisecracking talking goat shows up at their door with bad news: Thousands of years of previous seders have accumulated underneath their seder, and their afikoman is stuck in one of them. Now the family’s “wise child” must travel down with the goat through centuries of previous Passovers to find it—and to discover the questions he needs to start asking.

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