β Scribed by Jonathan Papernick
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
From the streets of modern Israel to the barrooms of Brooklyn to a suburban New England synagogue, the characters in theseΒ 10 stories search for love and acceptance in a world scarred by loss and loneliness. In ΒThe Madonna of Temple Beth Elohim,β an Iraq war veteran sees a vision of the Virgin Mary on the eve of the Jewish high holidays. In ΒMy Darling Sweetheart Baby,β a working-class drunk waits on his stoop for his disability check and the courage to proclaim his love to a local prostitute. And in the title story ΒThere Is No Other,β a rage-filled Jewish boy, tormented by his African lineage, arrives at a school Purim party dressed as the prophet Mohammed. Magical, erotic, spiritually penetrating and terrifyingly realistic, these provocative tales continue the storytelling tradition of Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, and Nathan Englander.
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