Dog Dance Days, by Michael Godfrey. The Book Launch, Part 3: Q & A, back stories, kindred spirits.

Michael Edward Godfrey (1939-2018) was a Montreal poet, painter, chess master and professor of English at Dawson College. Discovered and published after his death, Dog Dance Days is a masterpiece of Jewish-Quebecois literature. The novel is edited by Jacob Godfrey (Michael's son) and Lou Marinoff (Michael's long-time friend). www.amazon.com...
Ten stories from the Virtual Kabbalah interweave upon the tree of life as ten people and their doubles circle simple Simon, who in exile wanders the border of the promised land. In ten harmonic overtones their paths overlap and resolve as each dancer is driven to build a golem, their virtual messiah, who will absolve them of the responsibility of living.
Simon sketches the Dog Dance naked across history, where Jewish mystics in medieval Europe live alongside English professors in late 20th century French Canada. A dance that moves in a circle to a song that ever rises in fury, it will pull you in as characters reel from bedroom to bedlam to prison to stage, a distorted ritual of the new age fueled by wanton abuse of once-sacred tools: sex, drugs and Torah.