A Cobbler's Tale

A Cobbler’s Tale is an adventure story about Pincus Potasznik, a second-generation Jewish cobbler, born in a small shtetl in the province of Galicia, part of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1910, at the historic height of the massive Eastern European immigration wave to the New World, Pincus decides to leave behind his pregnant wife, and three small children, in order to seek a new life for his family in the burgeoning Lower East Side of Manhattan. On his traumatic voyage across the Atlantic Ocean on the SS Amerika steamship, Pincus meets Jakob Adler, a young man running from an accidental murder of a notorious crime boss in Warsaw. The story also explores the challenges of pregnant Clara Potasznik as she does her best to protect her family, while the bloodiest battles of World War I explode within miles of her family home, a small village called Krzywcza. Moshe, the young son of Pincus and Clara Potasznik, discovers his divine ability to foretell dire events, and to offer real comfort those in pain, taking the reader into the wisdom and mystery surrounding the ancient Jewish mysticism, known as Kabbalah. A Cobbler’s Tale is a story of a family’s survival against tremendous odds.

Neil Perry Gordon achieved his goal of an author of historical fiction with his first novel - A Cobbler's Tale, published in the fall of 2018. With dozens of reviews praising his writing style, he released his second novel - Moon Flower the following year. 

His creative methods and inspiration has been described as organic, meaning that he works with a general premise for his characters and plot, without a formal, detailed outline. This encourages his writing to offer surprising twists and unexpected outcomes, which readers have celebrated. 

These two novels also have the attributes of being driven by an equal balance between character development and action scenes, which moves the stories along at a page-turning pace. 

Due for release in the summer of 2019, is Neil's sequel to A Cobbler's Tale. The Righteous One is a spiritual adventure story of Moshe the Cobbler, a gentle sixty-year old tzaddik who is called upon to awaken his divine connection to the Almighty in order to destroy the gangster and rasha - Solomon Blass who invokes Kabbalah's dark side to wield his nefarious powers. 

Moshe learns that the final battle must take place in the dream world where the rasha moves about freely, but where the tzaddik must first receive training from ancient mystical forces in order to eliminate the evil force. 

The author has attributed his love for the creative process from his education from his formative years spent learning to learn at the Green Meadow Waldorf School.