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Also by Alan Cheuse:

Prayers for the Living, March 2015
Paperback (reprint)
Song Of Slaves In The Desert, March 2011
Hardcover
Where Light takes its Color From the Sea, April 2008
Hardcover
The Fires, September 2007
Paperback

Prayers for the Living
Alan Cheuse

Fig Tree
March 2015
On Sale: March 17, 2015
Featuring: Minnie Bloch
ISBN: 1941493009
EAN: 9781941493007
Paperback (reprint)
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Literature and Fiction

Prayers for the Living is a novel both grandiose in its vision and loving in its familiarity. Presented in a series of conversations between grandmother Minnie Bloch and her companions, Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio commentator on All Things Considered, unfolds a layered family portrait of three generations of the Bloch family, whose members are collapsing under everyday burdens and brutal betrayals. Her son Manny is a renowned, almost legendary rabbi. Respected by his congregants and surrounded by family, no one suspects that he yearns for a life of greater personal glory, but when an oracular bird delivers what Manny believes to be a message from his deceased father, he abandons his congregation in pursuit of a life in business and his entire life spirals out of control.

As Manny’s fortunes rise in the corporate realm, he falls deeper into an affair with a congregant, a Holocaust survivor, his wife sinks deeper into alcoholism and depression and his daughter, traumatized by a sexual scandal at college, makes Manny the target of a plot to shatter his newly-found empire. The devoted family matriarch, Minnie, observes and recounts the tragic downfall of her family, unable to save them from themselves.

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