“I would show them and their collaborators that when they slaughtered innocent girls deep in the forest, those girls sometimes came back.”
Wrath Becomes Her is a story about Vera, who is a clay golem who has been brought to life. She was created by a man named Ezra whose daughter, Chaya, was murdered being part of a Nazi resistance group. Vera wasn’t just created in Chaya’s image. Ezra used Chaya’s hair, teeth, nails, and even eyeballs to mold Vera into a duplicate of his daughter, and had the sole purpose of vengeance in mind when doing so.
So Vera has all Chaya’s memories, looks exactly like her, and is a virtual Nazi-killing machine. But she also has more sentience than Ezra planned, and has a very wide spectrum of human emotions.
Vera comes across Akiva, a boy she remembers from Chaya’s memories, and the two of them carry on the Nazi resistance he’d been a part of with Chaya. But as they get to know one another and come across a spectrum of people, good and bad, we learn a lot about Vera’s confusion about her own agency and personality. She wants to be her own person and have her own desires but just doesn’t know how to separate herself from Chaya when Vera is so much of Chaya, mentally and physically.
So while it is a story of vengeance and Jewish folklore, but it’s also a story of identity and self that is told so seamlessly. I never thought I’d feel so much for a golem!! I’m obsessed with Aden Polydoros’s writing aaf :')
Wrath Becomes Her is a story about Vera, who is a clay golem who has been brought to life. She was created by a man named Ezra whose daughter, Chaya, was murdered being part of a Nazi resistance group. Vera wasn’t just created in Chaya’s image. Ezra used Chaya’s hair, teeth, nails, and even eyeballs to mold Vera into a duplicate of his daughter, and had the sole purpose of vengeance in mind when doing so.
So Vera has all Chaya’s memories, looks exactly like her, and is a virtual Nazi-killing machine. But she also has more sentience than Ezra planned, and has a very wide spectrum of human emotions.
Vera comes across Akiva, a boy she remembers from Chaya’s memories, and the two of them carry on the Nazi resistance he’d been a part of with Chaya. But as they get to know one another and come across a spectrum of people, good and bad, we learn a lot about Vera’s confusion about her own agency and personality. She wants to be her own person and have her own desires but just doesn’t know how to separate herself from Chaya when Vera is so much of Chaya, mentally and physically.
So while it is a story of vengeance and Jewish folklore, but it’s also a story of identity and self that is told so seamlessly. I never thought I’d feel so much for a golem!! I’m obsessed with Aden Polydoros’s writing aaf :')