In Chicago author Goldie Goldbloom's On Division, a devout 57-year-old Jewish mother works to reconcile her faith with her Hasidic community's cruelty to her late son. Recently, I interviewed the writer Nathan Englander about his novel Kaddish.com, whose protagonist is a lapsed Orthodox Jew who lapses back. Englander finds this religious back-and-forthing eminently understandable.…
SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AM on September 25, 2019