

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
Categories: Fiction, Jewish Fiction, Family Life
Author: Matthew Daub
Narrator: Luzer Twersky
Unabridged: 9 hr 52 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 09/27/2022
Categories: Fiction, Jewish Fiction, Family Life
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.
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
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
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