Jacobs, Nova
WORK TITLE: The Last Equation of Isaac Severy
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WEBSITE: https://www.novajacobs.com/
CITY: Los Angeles
STATE: CA
COUNTRY: United States
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PERSONAL
Married; husband’s name Jeremy.
EDUCATION:University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, M.F.A.
ADDRESS
- Home - Los Angeles, CA.
- Agent - Lisa Bankoff (literary agent), Bankhoff Collaborative, New York, NY; Peter Scott (entertainment manager), Torque Entertainment, 2118 Wilshire Blvd. #160, Santa Monica, CA 90403.
CAREER
Writer, screenwriter, and novelist.
AWARDS:Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
WRITINGS
- The Last Equation of Isaac Severy: A Novel in Clues, Touchstone (New York, NY), 2018
SIDELIGHTS
Nova Jacobs is a writer, screenwriter, and novelist based in Los Angeles, California. She holds an M.F.A. from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. She is the recipient of a Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Jacobs’s first novel is The Last Equation of Isaac Severy, described by a writer on the Nova Jacobs website as a “literary mystery.” Throughout the novel, “Plausible depictions of psychologically wounded characters enhance the surprising plot twists,” observed a Publishers Weekly contributor.
The title character of the novel, Isaac Severy, is a famed and respected mathematician who has recently retired from the California Institute of Technology. His academic work had created some critical understandings of mathematics and made him a major figure in the field. His final equation had created a way to predict the behavior and outcomes of chaotic systems, making it extremely valuable both academically and economically. Multiple persons are interested in this equation, but Isaac has hidden it away.
At the beginning of the story, Isaac has apparently committed suicide with a string of Christmas lights dunked in his backyard hot tub. While the initial impression is suicide, there are those who believe that he may have been murdered.
Isaac Severy was the head of an extended family that included many eccentric but intellectually gifted members. His son, Philip, is a professor of string theory at Caltech, and is obsessed with creating an academic and scientific legacy for himself. Hazel Severy is Isaac’s granddaughter, a well-meaning woman who has little interest in (or aptitude for) science and mathematics. Instead, she runs a bookstore that is slowly moving closer to failure. There is little surprise in this, as Hazel and her brother Gregory, a police detective, are foster children of Isaac’s son Tom, and were adopted by Isaac after Tom went to prison.
When Hazel receives a letter from Isaac, mailed before his death, the question of what happened to the elder mathematician takes a surprising and convoluted turn. The letter reveals that Isaac expected that he would be killed, and that he is the first of three who will die. The letter explains that Hazel should find the hidden equation and make sure it is delivered to one of Isaac’s trusted colleagues in Italy. Suddenly, Hazel is responsible for what may be the most valuable string of mathematical symbols in the world, and the novel follows what happens as she works to fulfill her grandfather’s last request from her. At the same time, others come into the picture who are interested in finding the equation for themselves, some of whom are family and most of whom have dubious intentions. With some doubtful help from Philip and Gregory, she maneuvers around the many obstacles in her way and moves toward finding the equation.
“Debut novelist Nova Jacobs has plotted an elaborate riddle within a multifaceted exploration of family and identity,” commented Amanda Trivett, writing in BookPage. “In lovely, inventive prose, Jacobs re-engineers the tropes of family drama to explore age-old conundrums of destiny versus self-determination,” commented a Kirkus Reviews writer. Jacobs has “has penned a novel that is anything but clueless, filled with consideration and compassion for the different levels of human damage and comprehension,” remarked Bethanne Patrick, writing in the Washington Post Book World.
Trivett remarked that The Last Equation of Isaac Severy will appeal to readers who “prefer their stories full of intellectual suspense.” Booklist reviewer Bryce Christensen called the book a “brilliant first novel radiant with promise of even better to come,” while the Kirkus Reviews contributor named it a “remarkable debut.” In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Holly Silva stated that Jacobs’s “complex and carbonated plot is satisfying and refreshing” and called the book a “debut not to be missed.”
BIOCRIT
PERIODICALS
Booklist, February 1, 2018, Bryce Christensen, review of The Last Equation of Isaac Severy: A Novel in Clues, p. 28.
BookPage, March, 2018, Amanda Trivett, review of The Last Equation of Isaac Severy, p. 21.
Kirkus Reviews, January 2, 2018, review of The Last Equation of Isaac Severy.
Publishers Weekly, January 8, 2018, review of The Last Equation of Isaac Severy.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO), March 18, 2018, Holly Silva, “Novel by Nova Jacobs is Clever, Fun Debut,”review of The Last Equation of Isaac Severy, p. C7.
Wall Street Journal, March 2, 2o18, Tom Nolan, “Mysteries: A Bequest of Numbers,” review of The Last Equation of Isaac Severy.
Washington Post Book World, March 15, 2018, Bethanne Patrick, “A Hilarious Novel about Family, Death, Madness—and Math,” review of The Last Equation of Isaac Severy.
ONLINE
Nova Jacobs website, http://www.novajacobs.com (June 11, 2018), biography of Nova Jacobs.
- Nova Jacobs - https://www.novajacobs.com/bio/
Nova Jacobs has an MFA from the USC School of Cinematic Arts and is a recipient of the Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Her debut novel The Last Equation of Isaac Severy, a literary mystery set in the world of mathematics, is out March 6, 2018 from Touchstone / Simon & Schuster. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Jeremy. https://www.novajacobs.com/bio/
THE LAST EQUATION OF ISAAC
SEVERY
Amanda Trivett
BookPage.
(Mar. 2018): p21+. From Book Review Index Plus. COPYRIGHT 2018 BookPage http://bookpage.com/
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THE LAST EQUATION OF ISAAC SEVERY By Nova Jacobs Touchstone $25, 352 pages ISBN 9781501175121 Audio, eBook available
DEBUT FICTION
Hazel Severy isn't a math person. While the rest of her adoptive clan revels in the art of quantum mathematics, Hazel would rather be running her beloved bookstore or reading F. Scott Fitzgerald. But when her grandfather, Isaac, dies under questionable circumstances, Hazel is thrust into a bizarre puzzle. Isaac has entrusted Hazel with his top-secret equation, one that could have a catastrophic impact if it falls into the wrong hands.
Now Hazel must weed through the mathematics of Isaac's clues--without any help from her genius family--to make sure her grandfather's final wishes are honored before it's too late.
As the Severy family mourns their patriarch's death, each is in service of his or her own agenda. Why is Hazel's police officer brother behaving suspiciously? What burden is Isaac's professor son keeping from his wife and child? What is the motive behind Hazel's estranged cousin's extended stay? Most importantly, why are additional family members starting to die?
Each member of the charmingly odd Severy family is a work in (completely relatable) progress as they struggle to secure their place in the shadow of the legend that was Isaac Severy. Keeping up with their individual trials may seem daunting at first, but the effort is rewarded at the end of their respective dramas.
Debut novelist Nova Jacobs has plotted an elaborate riddle within a multifaceted exploration of
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family and identity. This genre-bending story will appeal to lovers of family dramas such as Celeste Ng's Everything I Never Told You, as well as readers who prefer their stories full of intellectual suspense.
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Trivett, Amanda. "THE LAST EQUATION OF ISAAC SEVERY." BookPage, Mar. 2018, p.
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The Last Equation of Isaac Severy
Bryce Christensen
Booklist.
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* The Last Equation of Isaac Severy. By Nova Jacobs. Mar. 2018. 352p. Touchstone, $25 (9781501184086).
As the discoverer of a powerful equation that predicts the behavior of chaotic systems, Isaac Severy sets in motion a tense chain of events when he dies in his Jacuzzi, leaving his equation behind in a secret repository. Predictably, those intent on recovering the formula include not only theoretical mathematicians but also military strategists and corporate profiteers. But in the riveting narrative that Jacobs spins, it is Isaac's adopted granddaughter, Hazel Severy--a young woman indifferent to mathematics--who commands readers' primary attention. For it is Hazel, not Isaac's brilliant physicist son, Philip, who receives the stunning letter Isaac posts just before his death. That letter--revealing the dark truth about Isaac's death (staged as a suicide) and warning of two more deaths to come--instructs Hazel to find the hidden equation and deliver it to a trustworthy Italian colleague. The story of how Hazel grapples with that daunting instruction-- aided by the talents of an unpredictable cousin but weighed down by the travails of a traumatized brother--delivers all the page-turning suspense of a mystery novel laced with insights into modern mathematics and quantum physics, and into the dynamics of family relationships. A brilliant first novel radiant with promise of even better to come. --Bryce Christensen
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Christensen, Bryce. "The Last Equation of Isaac Severy." Booklist, 1 Feb. 2018, p. 28. Book
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Jacobs, Nova: THE LAST EQUATION OF ISAAC SEVERY
Kirkus Reviews.
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Jacobs, Nova THE LAST EQUATION OF ISAAC SEVERY Touchstone/Simon & Schuster (Adult Fiction) $25.00 3, 6 ISBN: 978-1-5011-7512-1
A celebrated mathematician leaves a legacy of inexactitude to his confused progeny.
Isaac Severy, the elderly patriarch of a numerically gifted clan, predicts his own demise and awaits his executioner one morning in his Hollywood Hills backyard. After his death, his granddaughter Hazel receives a letter from him containing clues to the equation that is his life's masterwork and also a prediction: "Three will die. I am the first." Only Hazel and, as will be revealed later, her brother, Gregory, have been selected by Isaac to fulfill his mathematical designs, although they are not blood relations but foster children taken in by Isaac's black-sheep son, Tom, and adopted by Isaac after Tom's imprisonment. Hazel is a failed Seattle bookseller, Gregory a not particularly diligent LAPD detective. These two nonmathematical Severys take turns with their uncle Philip, Isaac's son, a particle physicist whose academic career has stalled, having chapters told from their perspectives. Romantic yearnings, of the illicit and/or near- incestuous variety, afflict all three. Several vividly sketched minor players vie for access to Isaac's secret, not least his reclusive daughter, Paige, a probability theorist, and her son, Alex, an aspiring international man of mystery. Strangers are also circling. P. Booth Lyons, allegedly a government agent, has sent his persistent secretary, Nellie Stone, to stalk Philip around the campus of Caltech. A strange professor wants Hazel to meet him at the La Brea Tar Pits. The path to Isaac's equation meanders through a hotel room numbered 137, a stubbornly password- protected computer, and a map of Los Angeles dotted with stickers noting dates and times. The second to die validates Isaac's dire prophecy, lending urgency to the quest to decipher the stickers. In lovely, inventive prose, Jacobs re-engineers the tropes of family drama to explore age-old conundrums of destiny versus self-determination. However, the sheer number of characters and gambits threatens to overwhelm such a relatively short novel, as does the magnitude of its ambition.
The eloquence of the language transcends--and almost redeems--the plot's gimmickry in this remarkable debut.
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
"Jacobs, Nova: THE LAST EQUATION OF ISAAC SEVERY." Kirkus Reviews, 1 Jan. 2018.
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Book World: A hilarious novel about
family, death, madness - and math
Bethanne Patrick
The Washington Post.
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Byline: Bethanne Patrick
The Last Equation of Isaac Severy By Nova Jacobs
Touchstone. 336 pp. $25
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The subtitle of "The Last Equation of Isaac Severy" by Nova Jacobs is "A Novel in Clues." How clever, maybe even a bit twee. Is Jacobs about to lead readers on a choose-your-own-adventure chase? In a way, yes.
This debut mystery is fun but not necessarily light. In scene one, protagonist Hazel Severy, a 30- something failed bookseller, attends the funeral of her grandfather, the titular Isaac Severy, a mathematician of international repute. His death plunges his family and friends into deep mourning. Enter Philip Severy, Isaac's son and near-professional equal. While Isaac dedicated his life to pure math, Philip is a theoretical physicist obsessed with his place in the history of string theory. Enter also Hazel's beloved brother Gregory, a member of the Los Angeles Police Department. Oh, and weird cousin Alex.
As Jacobs peels back the layers on the Severy clan, we will discover Philip is a professional prevaricator in his personal life, Gregory has some unresolved issues, and Alex is as much of a liar as all the rest of them - and I have not even mentioned all of the rest of them.
When Hazel decides at the funeral to break the seal on a letter from her grandfather, she sets in motion one set of clues that will take her from a typeset puzzle to a mysterious pink hotel to - well, no spoilers. At the same time, the perspectives of Philip and Gregory show that there are darker layers in the family than Hazel knows. Philip is being pursued by the enigmatic P. Booth Lyons of an organization called "Government-Scholar Relations," and Gregory is pursuing the greatest criminal he has ever known.
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Isaac may have understood the dysfunction of his son and grandson, which is why he sends the confused and damaged but also kind and honest Hazel down a rabbit hole of his own making. If ever there were a book-length explanation of "a method to his madness," this is it. Isaac plays a shell game with his beloved granddaughter that even involves a shell game (or at least the explication of one).
If occasionally, going down the rabbit hole with Hazel seems digressive, that is all right. It staves off some heart-wrenchingly sad realities on the surface. Hazel and Alex get closer and closer to understanding Grandfather Isaac's "last equation," and it is a doozy - one that might explain Isaac's death and many others as well. Nova Jacobs has penned a novel that is anything but clueless, filled with consideration and compassion for the different levels of human damage and comprehension.
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Patrick is the editor, most recently, of "The Books That Changed My Life: Reflections by 100 Authors, Actors, Musicians and Other Remarkable People."
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
Patrick, Bethanne. "Book World: A hilarious novel about family, death, madness - and math."
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Novel by Nova Jacobs is clever, fun debut
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO).
(Mar. 18, 2018): Arts and Entertainment: pC7. From Book Review Index Plus. COPYRIGHT 2018 St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Byline: Holly Silva Special to the Post-Dispatch
In the prologue of Nova Jacobs debut novel, the eponymous Isaac Severy commits sunrise suicide with the unlikely tools of his backyard hot tub and a string of Christmas lights. Or, then again, was it murder?
At age 79, Isaac was an irreplaceable mathematician and one of the most beloved academics in Southern California who has since retired from the California Institute of Technology. He was also the reigning patriarch of four generations of Los Angeles-based bookish eccentrics, a zany family straight out of a Wes Anderson movie.
Just one example is Isaacs 57-year-old son, Philip, a professor of string theory, also at Caltech. When Philip strays toward a extramarital affair, he doesnt contemplate betraying his wife or the tempting woman on a barstool in front of him. No, Philip weighs his choice in terms of historical scientific breakthroughs the alleged infidelities of Robert Oppenheimer, Lev Landau, Erwin Schrodinger each romantic intrigue corresponding to a vigorous period of output and discovery.
No surprise, then, that Isaac left behind an unusual inheritance. Rather than money or real estate, the Severy children and grandchildren are greedily scrabbling to get at Isaacs last equation.
As it turns out, so are others. Among sympathy cards are urgent entreaties addressed to individual family members from mysterious strangers who beg for drinks, lunches and secret meetings about Isaacs work. These are mostly envoys from one of two groups who enjoy exploiting science for their own ends. The first group uses scientific advancement as a tool for war. The other wants to make more money than they already have. One kills, the other steals.
But Isaac has left instructions, clues, bread crumbs, this cryptic assignment only to Hazel, his 30- year-old adopted granddaughter. She is less than eager to fly back home to her failing bookstore in Seattles Pioneer Square and her equally failing relationship with a boyfriend there.
Who, among several smart Severys, in league with forces good and evil, will get to the equation first, and what will Isaacs final work reveal?
In addition to the thrumming mystery of The Last Equation of Isaac Severy: A Novel in Clues, there is a casual accuracy to each and every written detail. Instead of traffic, Nova Jacobs speaks
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of the sensitive momentum of the interstate; and rather than a simple tattoo, the author shows the reader inked barbwire curling up his limb. Hazels bookstore employee, who also reports for the local newspaper, is not a freelancer, but a stringer. And Jacobs writes of migraines, the Severy family affliction, with insider precision the fickle efficacy of medication, for instance.
Jacobs never loses traction or the fun of her elaborate storyline, though she does manage a great gasping twist or two. Her sprawling cast of characters are each wonderfully distinct, and concepts such as string theory are within reach. Her complex and carbonated plot is satisfying and refreshing a debut not to be missed.
> Holly Silva is a St. Louis editor. ---
The Last Equation of Isaac Severy: A Novel in Clues By Nova Jacobs Published by Touchstone, 352 pages, $25
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The Last Equation of Isaac Severy: A Novel in Clues by Nova Jacobs
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
"Novel by Nova Jacobs is clever, fun debut." St. Louis Post-Dispatch [St. Louis, MO], 18 Mar.
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- Publishers Weekly
https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-5011-7512-1
Word count: 215The Last Equation of Isaac Severy: A Novel in Clues
Nova Jacobs. Touchstone, $25 (352p) ISBN 978-1-5011-7512-1
The apparent suicide of a legendary mathematician drives Jacobs’s intricate and moving first novel. Isaac Severy, renowned for having developed complex predictive equations for seemingly random events, such as “the erratic pattern of melting ice in the Arctic,” dies in the backyard hot tub at his L.A. home after being electrocuted by a string of Christmas lights. His granddaughter, Hazel Severy, the owner of a struggling Seattle bookstore, receives one last letter from him, postmortem. In the letter, Isaac states that he hopes not to evade the assassin who has been following him; asks Hazel to destroy his “work in Room 137,” except for one equation, which she must hand over to a man whose “favorite pattern is herringbone”; warns her not to stay in his house after October 31st; and tells her that he is but the first of three people who will die. Hazel attempts to honor her grandfather’s cryptic last requests and solve his murder. Plausible depictions of psychologically wounded characters enhance the surprising plot twists. Agent: Lisa Bankoff, Bankoff Collaborative. (Mar.)
The Last Equation of Isaac Severy: A Novel in Clues
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/mysteries-a-bequest-of-numbers-1520026457
Word count: 378Mysteries: A Bequest of Numbers
A brilliant mathematician dies in his Jacuzzi, leaving a final puzzle: “Three will die. I am the first.”
Mysteries: A Bequest of Numbers
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By Tom Nolan
March 2, 2018 4:34 p.m. ET
1 COMMENTSOne fine fall morning in Los Angeles, beloved 79-year-old mathematician Isaac Severy dies in his backyard Jacuzzi by electrocution, an apparent suicide. Why? And, more to the point for several interested parties, what’s become of the late genius’s research? These questions propel the plot of Nova Jacobs’s hugely entertaining “The Last Equation of Isaac Severy” (Touchstone, 337 pages, $25).
Isaac, to prevent his work from falling into the hands of those who would misuse it, has bequeathed the research (in a privately delivered message) to his granddaughter, Hazel—“the family member they would least suspect.” Hazel, the owner of a failing Seattle bookstore, is told to destroy Isaac’s papers in their entirety but is given clues to the equation that serves as the capstone to Isaac’s life’s work. The chaos theorist also offers a posthumous warning: “Three will die. I am the first.”
Hazel stays in L.A. after Isaac’s funeral, puzzling out the clues that her grandfather left behind. Others are also eager if not desperate to get their hands on Isaac’s work, including the alluring secretary of a supposed government agent who claims that Isaac was about to sell his equation; and Isaac’s son Philip, a physicist riding the coattails of his own early promise. When another family member takes a fatal fall at the Severy estate—confirming in part Isaac’s cryptic warning—Hazel is tempted to share her grandfather’s farewell message with her brother, Gregory, an LAPD detective, even though her grandfather’s letter specifically warned: “Do not contact police, even those related to you.” Is a serial killer decimating the Severy clan?
Despite its darker hues—including the fulfillment of Isaac’s prediction—“The Last Equation of Isaac Severy” is full of delight. Though Ms. Jacobs’s writing has echoes of Thomas Pynchon, Nathanael West and J.D. Salinger, her terrific book displays in abundance a magic all its own.
- Book Page
https://bookpage.com/reviews/22324-nova-jacobs-last-equation-isaac-severy
Word count: 323March 2018
The Last Equation of Isaac Severy
Post-mortem pop quizBookPage review by Amanda Trivett
Hazel Severy isn’t a math person. While the rest of her adoptive clan revels in the art of quantum mathematics, Hazel would rather be running her beloved bookstore or reading F. Scott Fitzgerald. But when her grandfather, Isaac, dies under questionable circumstances, Hazel is thrust into a bizarre puzzle. Isaac has entrusted Hazel with his top-secret equation, one that could have a catastrophic impact if it falls into the wrong hands. Now Hazel must weed through the mathematics of Isaac’s clues—without any help from her genius family—to make sure her grandfather’s final wishes are honored before it’s too late.
As the Severy family mourns their patriarch’s death, each is in service of his or her own agenda. Why is Hazel’s police officer brother behaving suspiciously? What burden is Isaac’s professor son keeping from his wife and child? What is the motive behind Hazel’s estranged cousin’s extended stay? Most importantly, why are additional family members starting to die?
Each member of the charmingly odd Severy family is a work in (completely relatable) progress as they struggle to secure their place in the shadow of the legend that was Isaac Severy. Keeping up with their individual trials may seem daunting at first, but the effort is rewarded at the end of their respective dramas.
Debut novelist Nova Jacobs has plotted an elaborate riddle within a multifaceted exploration of family and identity. This genre-bending story will appeal to lovers of family dramas such as Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You, as well as readers who prefer their stories full of intellectual suspense.
This article was originally published in the March 2018 issue of BookPage. Download the entire issue for the Kindle or Nook.