The celebrated Pulitzer finalist and prize-winning author of Dinner at the
Center of the Earth and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
delivers his best work yet, a streamlined comic masterpiece about a son's
failure to say Kaddish for his father.
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 eleven 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