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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Moving Kings

Moving Kings

Cohen, Joshua

Paperback

General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 039959020X
ISBN13: 9780399590207
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: Aug 7 2018
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
A propulsive, incendiary novel about faith, race, class, and what it means to have a home, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Netanyahus

A Jewish Sopranos . . . utterly engrossing, full of passionate sympathy . . . Cohen is an extraordinary prose stylist, surely one of the most prodigious at work in American fiction today.--The New Yorker

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR--Vulture, Bookforum

One of the boldest voices of his generation, Joshua Cohen returns with Moving Kings, a powerful and provocative novel that interweaves, in profoundly intimate terms, the housing crisis in America's poor black and Hispanic neighborhoods with the world's oldest conflict, in the Middle East.

The year is 2015, and twenty-one-year-olds Yoav and Uri, veterans of the last Gaza War, have just completed their compulsory military service in the Israel Defense Forces. In keeping with national tradition, they take a year off for rest, recovery, and travel. They come to New York City and begin working for Yoav's distant cousin David King--a proud American patriot, Republican, and Jew, and the recently divorced proprietor of King's Moving Inc., a heavyweight in the tri-state area's moving and storage industries. Yoav and Uri now must struggle to become reacquainted with civilian life, but it's not easy to move beyond their traumatic pasts when their days are spent kicking down doors as eviction-movers in the ungentrified corners of the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens, throwing out delinquent tenants and seizing their possessions. And what starts off as a profitable if eerily familiar job--an Occupation--quickly turns violent when they encounter one homeowner seeking revenge.

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