Hannah Bloom: Dream Juggler

"A multi-layered novel, Herz does a great job of taking us into Hannah's head and heart and also exploring the complicated nature of both familial and business relationships. A sensitive and timely read!" -Meryl Ain, Ed.D. author of Shadows We Carry and The Takeaway Men

Hannah Bloom is a working mother, a wife, a business owner, a poet, and now, unexpectedly, something more. One ordinary morning is about to make extraordinary demands on everything she thought she had under control.

As her world fractures in every direction, she boards a commuter train carrying family history, a business in crisis, and news she has not yet shared with anyone. A lunch in the city pulls her mother's Berlin childhood into the present, and the intergenerational stories she has always carried beneath the surface begin pressing through. Between the lawsuit piling up at her door, her daughters coming home from camp, and the new life shifting quietly inside her, something has to give.

Introspective and emotionally precise, this is a novel for anyone who has ever felt themselves pulled in six directions and wondered which one was theirs. Women navigating business and motherhood and marriage and history all at once, without enough sleep, without enough hours, and with everything always slightly unfinished.

For readers who love Rachel Cusk or Jenny Offill, this is a poignant, thought-provoking portrait of a woman stretched between the demands of the present and the echo of the past.

And if you too, have ever felt pulled in too many directions and wondered which one was truly yours, this story is for you.