Deze serie duikt in de diepgaande aspecten van het Joodse leven in Amerika, waarbij de botsing tussen traditionele en moderne waarden wordt onderzocht aan de hand van de levens van jonge mannen. Lezers volgen hun persoonlijke reizen, intellectuele zoektochten en spirituele worstelingen die hen tot volwassenen vormen. De boeken verweven meesterlijk religieuze tradities met de uitdagingen van de seculiere wereld, en bieden inzichtelijke perspectieven op geloof, vriendschap en de zoektocht naar identiteit. Het is een boeiende vertelling over de kruising van verschillende werelden en hun wederzijdse invloed.
The story of two fathers and two sons and the pressures on all of them to pursue the religion they share in the way that is best suited to each. And as the boys grow into young men, they discover in the other a lost spiritual brother, and a link to an unexplored world that neither had ever considered before. In effect, they exchange places, and find the peace that neither will ever retreat from again....
“A superb mirror of a place, a time, and a group of people who capture our immediate interest and hold it tightly.” — The Philadelphia InquirerYoung Reuven Malter is unsure of himself and his place in life. An unconventional scholar, he struggles for recognition from his teachers. With his old friend Danny Saunders—who himself had abandoned the legacy as the chosen heir to his father's rabbinical dynasty for the uncertain life of a healer — Reuven battles to save a sensitive boy imprisoned by his genius and rage. Painfully, triumphantly, Reuven's understanding of himself, though the boy change, as he starts to approach the peace he has long sought…