Faith for Beginners by Aaron Hamburger

Faith for Beginners by Aaron Hamburger

An acclaimed short-story writer has created a miraculous first novel about an American family on the verge of a breakdown-and an epiphany.

In the summer of 2000, Israel teeters between total war and total peace. Similarly on edge, Helen Michaelson, a respectable suburban housewife from Michigan, has brought her ailing husband and rebellious college-age son, Jeremy, to Jerusalem. She hopes the journey will inspire Jeremy to reconnect with his faith and find meaning in his life . . . or at least get rid of his nose ring.

It's not that Helen is concerned about Jeremy's sexual orientation (after all, her other son is gay as well). It's merely the matter of the overdose (Just like Liza Jeremy had told her), the green hair, and what looks like a safety pin stuck through his face. After therapy, unconditional love, and tough love . . . why not try Israel?

Yet in seductive and dangerous surroundings, with the rumbling of violence and change in the air, in a part of the world where there are no modern times, mother and son become new, old, and surprising versions of themselves.

Funny, erotic, searingly insightful, and profoundly moving, Faith for Beginners is a stunning debut novel from a vibrant new voice in fiction.

From the Hardcover edition.

Aaron Hamburger is the author of the short-story collection The View from Stalin's Head, for which he was awarded the Rome Prize by The American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was awarded a fellowship from the Edward F. Albee Foundation and won first prize in the David Dornstein Memorial Creative Writing Contest for Young Adult Writers. His writing has appeared in The Village Voice, Out, Nerve, and Time Out New York. He teaches writing at Columbia University and lives in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9781400062980
ISBN 10	1400062985
Titel	Faith for Beginners
Autor	Aaron Hamburger
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Random House (NY)
Erscheinungsjahr	2005-10-04
Seitenanzahl	340
Preise	Short-listed for Lambda Literary Awards (Gay Fiction) 2005
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.