Rabbis of the Garden State
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In the suburbs of New Jersey, where temple gossip flows like Manischewitz wine, eleven-year-old Andy becomes entangled in a whirlwind of maternal quirks and religious intrigue. His mother&8217sbizarre obsession with Rabbi Landy transforms their once-quiet life above a candy store into a tale of surprises.Andy&8217sworld features a colorful cast: a fiery sister, an invisible brother, a precociously sexual savant best friend with green teeth, and a foulmouthed neighbor who rivals the 50-Foot Woman. As he navigates from confusion to understanding, his journey is filled with humor and heartfelt moments.When forced into yeshiva with the rabbi&8217sinsufferable sons, Andy becomes drawn to his magnetic Talmud teacher, Rabbi Loobling. His exploration of faith, desire, and family secrets unfolds from the streets of the Garden State to the halls of college, revealing the complex adults around him.Rabbis of the Garden State delivers a sharp look at synagogue life laced with teenage yearning. This powerful portrayal of suburban Jewish life in the &821760sis both funny and moving. As Andy transitions to adulthood, the mysteries of childhood unravel, exposing secrets and deep truths about family, faith, and the unexpected twists of love. Daniel Meltz&8217sbeautifully crafted debut novel captures the spirit of an era and delves into the timeless questions of belonging, belief, and the complicated relationships that shape us all.Praise for Rabbis of the Garden State&8220Rol over Philip Roth and Saul Bellow. Poet Daniel Meltz has written a Jewish growing-up/coming-ofage novel that will knock your socks off. Wry, hilariously funny, deftly touching, emotionally accurate about being an adolescent, a perfect piece of sociology about suburban Jewish families and their complicated relationship to religion and its leaders, Rabbis of The Garden State is also swooningly, deliciously, romantically&8212gay8221&8212Felce Picano, author of Ambidextrous: The Secret Lives of Children&8220Rabis of The Garden State is an absolute joy from beginning to end. Fresh and funny and charming, it brings to mind Holden Caulfield if he had had a sense of humor and gone to yeshiva. It concerns a divorced mother and her eleven-year-old gay son, both struggling with forbidden loves in the not-so-swinging 1960s. It mines those secret spaces of childhood as a bright-but-awkward gay kid experiences those first longings for other boys (and one hot rabbi) while at the same time learns that his out-of-control mother might be schtupping a different rabbi&8230whoalso happens to be her (fake) psychoanalyst. The most delicious and poignant mayhem ensues. I loved every minute of it&82218212Blair Fell, best-selling author of The Sign for Home and writer for Queer As Folk&8220Entrtaining as hell.&8221&8212Ore Rudavsky, director of The Treatment and Hiding and Seeking&8220Wit an F in Deportment from his sixth-grade teacher and a dangerously needy mother, whip-smart Andy Baer at the outset of &8220Rabis of the Garden State&8221Is riding