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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
612-822-4611
The Faithful

The Faithful

Reuben, Rachel

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 0988598965
ISBN13: 9780988598966
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Sep 25 2017
Pages: 494
Weight: 1.44
Height: 0.99 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Faithful is The Chosen for a new generation, with Potok's 1940's Brooklyn giving way to Rachel Reuben's gritty 1990's Crown Heights. Five compelling coming-of-age characters live out this edgy, push-pull story that juxtaposes ultra-orthodox Judaism with the modern, secular world. The Faithful is a page-turning, semi-autobiographical story that explores the boundaries of love, sexual identity, gender, faith, racism and violence. Lark, the wise-cracking teenage rebel, is thrust into this ultra-orthodox world, kicking and screaming, when her pot-smoking, former-hippie Dad becomes a born-again Jew and moves the family to Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Rachel, who has her private doubts about the religious life she was born into, dreams of escape and finds an unlikely friend in Lark. Jamal, known as Rainman is an African American neighborhood hotshot in whom Lark finds a dangerous, sexy distraction. Yakov, the grandson of Crown Heights' revered Rebbe, and his likely successor, struggles with the conflict between his obligations to his God, and his lust, body and soul, for childhood friend, Daniel, who pushes beyond the parameters of the community to find a way to live honestly. When riots rip through Crown Heights, we witness more than just the unraveling of a neighborhood, as the lives of each of these vivid characters are changed forever.

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