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.
Lyrical, vivid, and thoroughly engaging, this is certainly among the first novels of its kind..
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
