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Reuven Fentons novel Goyhood is a brilliant debut about a devoutly Orthodox Jewish man who discovers in middle age that hes not, in fact, Jewish, and embarks on a remarkable road trip to come to grips with his fate; its Chaim Potoks The Chosen meets Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
When Mayer (n?e Marty) Belkin fled small-town Georgia for Brooklyn nearly thirty years ago, he thought hed left his wasted youth behind. Now hes a Talmud scholar married into one of the greatest rabbinical families in the world a dirt-poor country boy reinvented in the image of God.
But his mothers untimely death brings a shocking revelation: Mayer and his neer-do-well twin brother David arent, in fact, Jewish. Traumatized and spiritually bereft, Mayers only recourse is to convert to Judaism. But the earliest date he can get is a week from now. What are two estranged brothers to do in the interim?
So begins the Belkins Rumspringa through Americas Deep South with Moms ashes in tow, plus two tagalongs: an insightful Instagram influencer named Charlayne Valentine and Popeye, a one-eyed dog. As the crew gets tangled up in a series of increasingly surreal adventures, Mayer grapples with a God who betrayed him and an emotionally withdrawn wife in Brooklyn who has yet to learn her husband is a counterfeit Jew.
Author: Reuven Fenton
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Central Avenue
Published: 05/07/2024
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.13h x 6.14w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781771683685
Language: English
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