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Leaving Eastern Parkway

By: Matthew Daub
Narrated by: Luzer Twersky
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Brooklyn's Hasidic community of Lubavitchers is turned upside down when family tragedy strikes and everyday life changes forever in the life of Zev Altshul. He is first placed into the care of the closed and close-knit community where he grew up, but soon realizes he can't stay. His saving grace is handball; it's his gift from God, and the one thing he can rely on as he is shuttled, chased, and abandoned by trusted elders, family, and friends. 

Even as Zev never fully escapes from the guilt of his choices, he sets course across the United States to discover where loyalty really lies and what it means. He seeks out his long-lost sister, only to find himself as unprepared for life outside the Lubavitcher community as he was unwilling to remain. Forced out of his second home, Zev plays handball to support himself in the goyische world, but obligations he doesn't fully understand still tie him to Crown Heights and follow him to Chicago and New Mexico threatening always to return Zev to life among the Lubavitchers. 

Lyrical, vivid, and thoroughly engaging, this is certainly among the first novels of its kind.

©2022 Matthew Daub (P)2022 Tantor
City Life Coming of Age Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Jewish Sports Urban World Literature
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