{"product_id":"the-outside-world-9781400041619","title":"The Outside World","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the best-selling author of The Ladies Auxiliary  a hilarious new novel about two Orthodox Jewish families brought together by the marriage of their children.  Tzippy Goldmans mother has been planning her wedding since before she was born. Her four younger sisters want her to marry the crown prince of Boro Park. But Tzippy  approaching spinsterhood at the age of twenty-two  has other ideas. Tzippy has been on one too many blind dates in the lobby of the Brooklyn Marriott. She is hungry for experience and longs to escape the suffocating expectations of religious stricture and romantic obligation.  Bryan Millers family lives in a liberal New Jersey community. Like Orthodox Jews anywhere in the world  they spend Saturdays in synagogue. And like suburbanites anywhere in the world  they wake up on Sundays and take their kids to Little League games and stop for pizza on the way home. But to Bryan  this middle road looks more and more like hypocrisy. He longs for conviction  for the relief of absolutes. To his parents bewilderment and horror  he trades in his beloved Yankees cap for the black fedora of the ultra-Orthodox.  In the courtship of Bryan and Tzippy  and in the progress of their highly freighted love affair and marriage  Tova Mirvis illuminates an insular world  where ancient and modern collide. With warmth  originality  and remarkable insight  she considers isolation and assimilation; the fervor of the zealot  the doubt of the truly faithful; the hunger for freedom  the hunger for God; and the retreat into traditionalism that has become a worldwide phenomenon among young people of all religions. The Outside World is a marvelous evocation of family and community  and of the struggle to be religious in a modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67979771838517,"sku":"ByrdShop_1400041619","price":23.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781400041619.jpg?v=1794687360","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-outside-world-9781400041619","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}