Lost and Found

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"This story had me tearing up in analysis then soaring in joy. There's not a better time than now to encourage acceptance of differences and to search for and celebrate Goodness wherever it exists. Can we not use this tale as a guide at this time of year, to search out the best in everyone? This author's style will sing to your soul. I strongly recommend you read this, absorbing its hauntingly beautiful melody in its message." (Book Review Crew)

"In Greene's novel, the director of a new Jewish boarding school rankles the community with his offbeat style - and there are rumors that he might be the Messiah.

Nudelman, a successful and irrepressible truck salesman, proposes a novel idea to the Synagogue Board in the Jewish community in Bolton, a small town in Western Pennsylvania: to start a Jewish boarding school. Although they initially reject the proposal, Nudelman wins them over, suggesting that an old retirement home has plenty of room to house incoming students, and the endowment that sustains it is considerable enough to be partially repurposed. The board hires a Russian school director, Lev Kyol, a 'tall, angular man, weathered as an unpainted barn,' whose resume boasts experience as a school superintendent in Moscow. Although he impresses everyone with his 'aura of self-possession and strength,' he also shocks the board with a series of surprising decisions; he admits a Palestinian boy to the school, inaugurates a celebratory Palestinian Day, and organizes a fundraiser for a Catholic hostel.

Some members of the community are apoplectic - teacher Martin Schweig schemes to get Lev deported - while others think that he's the Messiah. Greene, the author of The Seed Apple (2016), hilariously entertains this latter notion in the narration by Mendel Traig, the community center administrator: 'Lev had suddenly become a diabolical, socialist dupe, a naive and irresponsible idealist, and a courageous advocate of brotherly love and understanding.' Mendel earnestly tries to figure out the newcomer, while also dreaming of a romantic relationship with his best friend, Estelle Cantor. The author's artful brew of farcical comedy and theological provocation may remind readers of the work of Booker Prize-winning novelist Howard Jacobson.

Overall, it's a delightfully satirical exploration of the intersection between the quotidian and the absurd. Lev is a particularly memorable character; it turns out that when he said 'superintendent,' he actually meant 'janitor, and he neither encourages nor repudiates the strange notion that his arrival is the fulfillment of biblical prophecy. Throughout, Greene wisely explores the salutary power of faith, which Mendel calls a 'kind of spiritual walker for the psychologically disabled.' A profoundly funny meditation on how one can find strength in religion." (Kirkus Reviews)

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