Awarded the 2009 Stonewall Prize for Fiction.
Winner of the Publishing Triangle's 2008 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction.
Twenty years have passed since Joseph left his family and his religious Israeli community when he fell in love with a man, the brilliant rabbi Yoel Rosenzweig. Now, for his fiftieth birthday, Joseph is preparing to have his five sons and the daughter-in-law he has never met spend the Sabbath with him in his Tel Aviv penthouse. This will be the first time he and his sons will have all been together in nearly two decades.
- ISBN10 1569474672
- ISBN13 9781569474679
- Publish Date 15 May 2008 (first published 1 January 2008)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Soho Press Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English