Leaving Eastern Parkway, Matthew Daub
Leaving Eastern Parkway, Matthew Daub
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Leaving Eastern Parkway

Author: Matthew Daub

Narrator: Luzer Twersky

Unabridged: 9 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/27/2022


Synopsis

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.

About Matthew Daub

Matthew Daub is an artist and writer. His career as a visual artist has spanned more than four decades. His watercolor paintings and drawings have been widely exhibited at galleries and museums throughout the United States, including numerous invitational exhibitions at institutions such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, and The National Academy of Design. In 1991 The Metropolitan Museum featured a Daub watercolor in their annual engagement calendar, American Watercolors. He has written dozens of articles for nationally distributed art magazines as well as a monograph on the artist, Carolyn Plochmann. Matthew retired after thirty-two years as a university art professor to devote full-time to his writing. Leaving Eastern Parkway is Matthew Daub's first novel.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Phyllis on October 12, 2022

Leaving Eastern Parkway is the story of an Orthodox Jewish boy from Brooklyn, NY. It paints a picture of his life shortly before leaving, his reasons for leaving, and his adventures for the next couple of years. We get a peek into his thoughts as his life changes dramatically. I live in Brooklyn and......more

Goodreads review by Amy on January 08, 2023

I have been an avid reader of fiction since childhood. In recent years, I’ve often been disappointed by novels that have uninteresting characters or abrupt and often nonsensical endings. I have also found difficulty getting books about Jewish protagonists that satisfy my “no Holocaust” rule. LEP had......more

Goodreads review by Julie on March 01, 2023

Wonderful Debut I thoroughly enjoyed reading Leaving Eastern Parkway. It was very human and inspiring. Life does not always take us n a straight path and this novel explores personal growth, belonging, doubts , community, connection and ultimately forgiveness. Well recommended. Beautifully written a......more