{"product_id":"9781941493007","title":"Prayers for the Living: A Novel","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrayers for the Living\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel both grand in its vision and loving in its familiarity. Presented in a series of conversations between grandmother Minnie Bloch and her companions, Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio commentator on All Things Considered, unfolds a layered family portrait of three generations of the Bloch family, whose members are collapsing under everyday burdens and brutal betrayals. Her son Manny is a renowned, almost legendary rabbi. Respected by his congregants and surrounded by family, no one suspects that he yearns for a life of greater personal glory, but when an oracular bird delivers what Manny believes to be a message from his deceased father, he abandons his congregation in pursuit of a life in business and his entire life spirals out of control.\u003cp\u003eAs Manny’s fortunes rise in the corporate realm, he falls deeper into an affair with a congregant, a Holocaust survivor, his wife sinks deeper into alcoholism and depression and his daughter, traumatized by a sexual scandal at college, makes Manny the target of a plot to shatter his newly-found empire. The devoted family matriarch, Minnie, observes and recounts the tragic downfall of her family, unable to save them from themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fig Tree Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47061211840752,"sku":"9781941493007","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781941493007_p0.jpg?v=1763795776","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781941493007","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}