Casting Lots Casting Lots

Casting Lots

Creating a Family in a Beautiful, Broken World

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Publisher Description

Susan Silverman grew up with parents who were, both before and after a devastating loss, atheists. Yet, as a young adult, she shocked everyone who knew her ("But you were elected Class Flirt in high school!") and became a rabbi. What was not surprising, however, was that she built her own big, unwieldy family through both birth and adoption, something she had intended from childhood. With three daughters and two sons ("We produce girls and import boys"), this unique family becomes a metaphor for the world's contradictions and complexities-a microcosm of the tragedy and joy, hope and despair, cruelty and compassion, predictability and absurdity of this world we all live in. A meditation on identity, faith, and belonging-one that's as funny as it is moving-Casting Lots will resonate with anyone who has struggled to find their place in the world and to understand the significance of that place.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2016
March 29
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
256
Pages
PUBLISHER
Hachette Books
SELLER
Hachette Digital, Inc.
SIZE
4.1
MB

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