Asher's father-the 89-year-old Rebbe, prime deputy for the leader of the Ladover Hasidic community-and Asher's mother are no nearer than ever to understanding Asher's deliberate turn to the "pagan" world of art. Renowned painter Asher Lev, his wife Devorah (still psychically a captive of a Holocaust-crippled childhood), and a young son and daughter are in Brooklyn to participate in the mourning period for a revered uncle. Asher had been "banished" 20 years before, and now once again he must exist between two apparently exclusive worlds: there is the sacred "world of Torah," and there is also the secular, solitary, and visionary world of the artist. In this sequel to My Name is Asher Lev (1972), the author of The Chosen (1967) and Davita's Harp (1985)-as well as other fictional probes of the rich complexities of Jewish Orthodoxy-brings his protagonist artist back to the Hasidic community in Brooklyn from France.
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