Novack, Sarah Chana

Overview "This thesis is the first third of my novel, titled Buttercup. It is a young adult high fantasy novel immersed in Jewish mythology. The story follows sixteen-year-old Opal living in a high fantasy world, called Medina. The people of Medina have supernatural powers, and there are four varieties—serafers (powers based on fire), seviaths (powers based on water), solems (powers based on earth), and spirahs (powers based on air). Non-supernatural people are called commons, but they have an...