Reuven Fenton Goyhood Paperback Book

NOW IN PAPERBACK! Reuven Fentons novelGoyhoodis a brilliant debut about a devoutly Orthodox Jewish man who discovers in middle age that hes not, in fact, Jewish, and embarks on a remarkable road trip to come to grips with his fate its Chaim PotoksThe ChosenmeetsPlanes, Trains and Automobiles. When Mayer (neMarty) Belkin fled smalltown Georgia for Brooklyn nearly thirty years ago, he thought hed left his wasted youth behind. Now hes a Talmud scholar married into one of the greatest rabbinical families in the world a dirtpoor country boy reinvented in the image of God. But his mothers untimely death brings a shocking revelation Mayer and his neerdowell twin brother David arent, in fact, Jewish. Traumatized and spiritually bereft, Mayers only recourse is to convert to Judaism. But the earliest date he can get is a week from now. What are two estranged brothers to do in the interim? So begins the Belkins Rumspringa through Americas Deep South with Moms ashes in tow, plus two tagalongs an insightful Instagram influencer named Charlayne Valentine and Popeye, a oneeyed dog. As the crew gets tangled up in a series of increasingly surreal adventures, Mayer grapples with a God who betrayed him and an emotionally withdrawn wife in Brooklyn who has yet to learn her husband is a counterfeit Jew. | Reuven Fenton Goyhood Paperback Book