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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Distance is a Mitzvah

Distance is a Mitzvah

Iczakson, Jay
Louis, Asher J.

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN13: 9798301578106
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 16 2024
Pages: 404
Weight: 1.07
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A family reunion. A Nashville bar mitzvah. An ambulance, just in case.

Michael has come to celebrate with his family. Then someone asks him how to vote.

It is 2008, and a question about Obama and McCain turns the buffet line into a battleground. Gathered in Nashville for a bar mitzvah, Michael's Hungarian Jewish American relatives have three days to catch up, revisit old grievances, and explain exactly where everyone else went wrong.

Politics, religion, intermarriage-nothing is off the table. Michael answers discomfort with jokes, sometimes making everything worse. Between the arguments and the stuffed cabbage, he finds himself confronting something harder to laugh away: the people who connect him to his past are growing older, and the traditions he took for granted may disappear with them.

Distance Is a Mitzvah is an irreverent family satire about aging, identity, and the complicated business of belonging.

For readers who like their family fiction sharp, opinionated, and willing to make dinner uncomfortable.

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