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kaddish.com

Larry is the secular son in a family of Orthodox Brooklyn Jews. When his father dies, it’s his responsibility to recite the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, every day for 11 months. To the horror and dismay of his sister, Larry refuses --- imperiling the fate of his father’s soul. To appease her, Larry hatches an ingenious if cynical plan, hiring a stranger through a website called kaddish.com to recite the prayer and shepherd his father’s soul safely to rest.

Irreverent, hilarious and wholly irresistible, Nathan Englander’s tale of a son who makes a diabolical compromise brilliantly captures the tensions between tradition and modernity.

Audiobook available, read by Rob Shapiro

kaddish.com
by Nathan Englander

  • Publication Date: February 11, 2020
  • Genres: Fiction, Humor
  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • ISBN-10: 0525434054
  • ISBN-13: 9780525434054