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About the Author
Allan Appel, novelist and playwright, is the author of The Hebrew Tutor of Bel Air; High Holiday Sutra, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection; and The Rabbi of Casino Boulevard, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Raised in California and a longtime New Yorker, he lives in Connecticut, where he is a writer for the New Haven Independent.
Reviews
“With wit and verve, Allan Appel has crafted a delightful comic novel. Best of all is its irresistible narrator-protagonist, uncertainly poised between belief and unbelief, family loyalty and rebelliousness. Underneath the clever plot twists is a genuine quest for wisdom and a warmth and tenderness rare in today’s fiction.” —Phillip Lopate, author of A Mother’s Tale, The Art of the Personal Essay, To Show and Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction, and Waterfront: Walk Around Manhattan
“As fast-paced, audacious, and irreverent as a pickup basketball game played for human souls, The Book of Norman is a joyful romp through the minefield of American religious difference. Allan Appel writes with a verve and wit that transform his fearlessness into pure fun.” —Peter Manseau, author of Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter
“Allan Appel does it again! His unique blend of rabbinic play, stand-up comedy, and religious obsession has led him to produce a sly novel that explores how America’s hunger for redemption bumps up against world-weary, Jewish hope and disbelief.” —Rabbi James E. Ponet, Howard M. Holtzmann Jewish Chaplain, Emeritus, Yale University
“I can’t think of many novels that … manage to be intelligent and sympathetic to not one but two oft-misunderstood American religions…. Quite a feat.” Mark Oppenheimer, religion columnist, The New York Times
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