Aaron Hamburger

Aaron writes about his relationship to faith in his essay “Mount Sinai and Me” in the anthology Smashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible.

Aaron Hamburger’s next novel The Shiva Bandit has been acquired by HarperCollins, intended for a 2026 release. After her husband disappears fighting in World War II and the Nazis invade her Polish shtetl, an intrepid woman and her two daughters flee across the Soviet Union to Tashkent, Uzbekistan. There, they struggle to survive the war living among local Muslim women, desperate refugees, and elite Soviet cultural figures whom Stalin has evacuated out of the range of German bombers. 

Hotel Cuba has won the Bridge Book Award in American Fiction!

Available in print only, I write about what I learned about it the hard way about publishing a book in “Dwell in Gratitude” for Poets & Writers.

Excited to learn that Hotel Cuba is a finalist for the 2024 Bridge Book Awards in the American Fiction category.

The Jewish Book Council has selected Hotel Cuba as their January fiction pick for book clubs. The book was also reviewed (glowingly!) on their website. Check it out!

Read this conversation with Aaron and author Lauren Grodstein about their novels Hotel Cuba and We Must Not Think of Ourselves in Bomb Magazine!

The staff of All Things Considered highlights their most memorable stories from 2023, which includes an interview with Aaron Hamburger about Hotel Cuba.

The National Book Review named Hotel Cuba as one of its 5 Hot Books, praising it as “resonant and rich” and an “empathic, satisfying saga.” Read the full mention here.

Thank you to everyone who bought, read, and supported this novel. More copies are making their way into the world. I appreciate all the wonderful messages people have sent me as well as the love they’ve expressed online.