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A luminous novel—funny and moving-in similar measure—that shines with all the author’s distinctive talentsJacob’s Folly is just a rollicking, innovative, saucy guide, brimful of glowing, unforeseen figures, that assumes wish, religion, love, acting—and reincarnation.     In eighteenth century Paris, John Cerf is just a Jew, a peddler of blades, saltcellars, and snuffboxes. Despite a devastating teen-age relationship, he's motivated to boost herself up in existence, by whatever means he could. Significantly more than 200 years later, Jacob is astonished to locate himself reincarnated as a fly within the Long Island suburbs of twenty-first-century America, his new existence turned with techniques he could not have dreamed. But perhaps the littlest of insects may affect the switching of the planet, and because of his appearance, the lifestyles of the dependable volunteer fireman and a Orthodox Jewish girl breastfeeding a key goal won't ever function as the same.     Through the initial lens of Jacob’s awareness, Rebecca Miller examines change in most its various guises—personal, religious, literal.