Golem and the Jinni (2013)

A bakery and a tinsmith's workshop give two supernatural newcomers practical ways to enter immigrant New York. Chava's strength and Ahmad's relationship with heat are useful, but neither gift supplies an instant understanding of the people around them. Wecker makes work a meeting place between materials, custom and the need to belong. Choose it for the texture of skilled labour inside a larger historical fantasy, with human obligations pressing against apparently extraordinary abilities.