February, 2022. Amazon publishing.
When their maverick great-uncle dies and leaves behind a cryptic will, sixteen-year old Matt Rosen and his older sister Becca leave their California suburb on a road trip to find a long-lost, magic family bracelet. Matt doesn’t care about his family, his Judaism, or history at all—only his great Goyish uncle who gave him a key to something greater. But as they follow the clues left behind by the bracelet to New York City and beyond, they discover an unexpected and disturbing relationship between the bracelet, their family, and a murderous white supremacist known as 'the Cowboy'. Matt and Becca try to anticipate the Cowboy’s next move as they chase him on a whirlwind tour of American and family history.
Described as confidently written, historically sweeping, and stylistically adventurous, Margolis's debut literary work provides unique and unsettling insight into the 21st century Jewish-American reckoning with the American dream.
Eclectica Magazine, 2019.
Ari Cohen's ex-girlfriend is wanted by the Chinese government. Or so he thinks is the case, given what she does and what he knows about the Chinese government, and what she has mentioned in passing in her monthly emails. Even in an era of rising anti-semitism, it doesn't seem much easier to Ari to be Chinese. Authoritarian governance. Restrictions on movement. Federally sanctioned espionage of citizenry. Mary, Ari decides, with a Chinese father and a white American mother, has it best. Committed to neither world nor set of values...
