Allan Appel

"This is an unabashed joyride of a novel, at turns hilarious and bittersweet. It's a wholly original take on adolescence with a wild Jewish Lolita at its warm heart, a creature at once a thing of spirit and the irresistible flesh. Pure exhilaration."

 

"This is an important book. The greatest untold story of modern Jewish life may be the role of the Hebrew tutor. We're elusive, semi-mythical figures — samurai of learning who sweep into the lives of indifferent Jewish youngsters, wielding a sword of razor-sharp Torah." Nick Weiss

 

"The sto­ry goes beyond the "one crazy sum­mer" nar­ra­tive into a big­ger explo­ration of Norman's jour­ney from rabbi's geeky teenaged assis­tant." Jessica B. Horowitz