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Violence
None
No violence
Language
Barely any
Mild language in Potok's literary register
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
The weight of choosing between tradition and modernity — and the personal cost of taking a principled position — is the novel's sustained psychological subject
What this book is about
The sequel to The Chosen follows Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders as adults — Reuven in rabbinical school, Danny completing his psychology PhD. The conflict between Orthodox tradition and modern scholarship reaches a personal crisis. Potok writes with the same quiet authority and moral seriousness as the first novel; the questions about faith, text, and modernity are as urgent as ever. A significant Jewish-American literary novel.
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