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'God's Ear is by turns playful and prayerful, ironic and deadly serious. Although her idioms and inflections are hauntingly, soothingly familiar, the common linguistic property of generations of Jewish fabulists - Stanley Elkin, Cynthia Ozick, Bernard Malamud, Sholem Aliechem, Isaac Babel Mrs. Lerman speaks in her own vatic voice..wildly funny, achingly spiritual, profoundly Jewish and feminist at the same time.' -The New York Times Book Review
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Like a Chagall painting translated to print, this passionate, hilarious, God-infused novel centers on Yussell Fetner, Hasidic rabbi turned rich insurance salesman. His clients think he has the gift of prophecy, inherited from his rabbi father, whose own prophetic gifts descend directly from King David. Summoned from Far Rockaway to Kansas by his dying father, Yussel finds himself on a journey into the desert to locate an assemblage of three palm trees and a tent, where, the Rabbi announces, God has decreed that Yussel must found his congregation. Yussel explodes: he doesn't want a congregation, especially not in Kansas; he wants to be in Rockaway selling insurance. But he hasn't time to argue becuase his father dies almost at once (though he returns from time to time to guide Yussel in his ascent toward oneness with the Almighty). The incongruities of Talmudic worship in Kansas are further leavened by ribald Yiddishisms, and solemnized by informed reference to Jewish law. The very opposite of a minimalist, Lerman ( The Book of the Night ) proves herself mistress not only of side-splitting one-liners but also of pregnant perceptions about faith and virtue.
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