The Academy of Smoke and Mirrors

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Let's be honest: it was crazy spending $150 million to create the world's only Jewish boarding school and put it in rural Georgia.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Crazier still was Jeff Taylor's belief he could save Hampton Acres Hebrew Academy or HAHA before it went belly up. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Jeff a former hedge fund manager and lawyer thinks he's seen all the curveballs life can throw...until he takes the HAHA helm. There he runs smack into Tower of Babel-like dysfunction. Between the school's evaporating bank account the founder's daughter who uses smoke and mirrors to hide HAHA's financial frailty the dynasty-building lacrosse coach the school counselor who needs counseling the needy students and needier parents Jeff needs a miracle to keep HAHA afloat. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Not one to count on miracles Jeff wants out before HAHA implodes. But then the danger becomes literal when HAHA receives a rapper's bomb threat. Jeff must decide whether saving HAHA is possible...or whether he'll be lucky to save himself. </span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Academy of Smoke & Mirrors</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is hilarious and heartwarming meshuga and moving. It will delight anyone who has ever been or rooted for the underdog.</span></p>