Fagin the Thief  by Allison Epstein

This novel is the One Bay One Book selection for 2025-2026. The Jewish Community Library page says this about it:

"Fagin the Thief reimagines Charles Dickens’s London through the eyes of the city’s most gifted pickpocket, liar, and rogue. Long before Oliver Twist stumbled onto the scene, Jacob Fagin was scratching out a life for himself. Born in the Jewish enclave of Stepney shortly after his father was executed as a thief, Jacob is an outcast on the street but dearly loved at home. After a light-fingered pickpocket takes him under his wing and teaches him the trade, Jacob forges his own path in the shadows. His solitary life changes when he takes in Bill Sikes, an aspiring teenage robber with a mercurial temper, along with a variety of street urchins surviving by means of theft."  

We are borrowing a set of books from the Jewish Community Library. Pick up and drop off information (in Palo Alto) will be sent to registrants who indicate their desire to borrow a book. 

Please register here, and address any questions to Flaurie.