{"product_id":"goyhood-a-novel","title":"Goyhood: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA book club darling, this is a brilliant debut about a devoutly Orthodox Jewish man who discovers in middle age that he's not, in fact, Jewish, and embarks on a remarkable road trip to come to grips with his fate; it's Chaim Potok's The Chosen meets Planes, Trains and Automobiles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Mayer (née Marty) Belkin fled small-town Georgia for Brooklyn nearly thirty years ago, he thought he'd left his wasted youth behind. Now he's a Talmud scholar married into one of the greatest rabbinical families in the world - a dirt-poor country boy reinvented in the image of God.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut his mother's untimely death brings a shocking revelation: Mayer and his ne'er-do-well twin brother David aren't, in fact, Jewish. Traumatized and spiritually bereft, Mayer's only recourse is to convert to Judaism. But the earliest date he can get is a week from now. What are two estranged brothers to do in the interim?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo begins the Belkins' Rumspringa through America's Deep South with Mom's ashes in tow, plus two tagalongs: an insightful Instagram influencer named Charlayne Valentine and Popeye, a one-eyed dog. As the crew gets tangled up in a series of increasingly surreal adventures, Mayer grapples with a God who betrayed him and an emotionally withdrawn wife in Brooklyn who has yet to learn her husband is a counterfeit Jew.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Novel Tea Book Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53163349967147,"sku":"9781771683685","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0728\/0689\/1819\/files\/9781771683685.jpg?v=1775595239","url":"https:\/\/www.novelteabookshop.com\/products\/goyhood-a-novel","provider":"Novel Tea Book Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}