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Leaving Eastern Parkway
Written by Matthew Daub
Narrated by Luzer Twersky
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
Brooklyn's Hasidic community of Lubavitchers is turned upside down when family tragedy strikes and everyday life changes forever in the life of Zev Altshul. He is first placed into the care of the closed and close-knit community where he grew up, but soon realizes he can't stay. His saving grace is handball; it's his gift from God, and the one thing he can rely on as he is shuttled, chased, and abandoned by trusted elders, family, and friends. Even as Zev never fully escapes from the guilt of his choices, he sets course across the United States to discover where loyalty really lies and what it means. He seeks out his long-lost sister, only to find himself as unprepared for life outside the Lubavitcher community as he was unwilling to remain. Forced out of his second home, Zev plays handball to support himself in the goyische world, but obligations he doesn't fully understand still tie him to Crown Heights and follow him to Chicago and New Mexico threatening always to return Zev to life among the Lubavitchers. Lyrical, vivid, and thoroughly engaging, this is certainly among the first novels of its kind.
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Reviews for Leaving Eastern Parkway
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A compelling and spell binding read. The handball playing and Brooklyn references were especially interesting, like hearing about a history long forgotten.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very much enjoyed this. Both story and narration were excellent!
This is a work of fiction but, after doing cursory research about the narrator (because I loved listening to him!), I learned that his own experience in actuality is very similar to Zev’s life in the sense that both young men left their respective Hasidic communities to live as secular Jews in the greater outside world. Just a piece of trivia others might find interesting as well. ☺️