{"product_id":"the-prison-minyan","title":"The Prison Minyan","description":"\u003cp data-w-id=\"cae58fed-a693-a4db-99c7-c80694a9930d\" data-wf-id='[\"cae58fed-a693-a4db-99c7-c80694a9930d\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWelcome to Otisville, America’s only Jewish prison…where a new celebrity inmate is about to shatter the peace\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-w-id=\"c564152b-4563-46a6-f854-4c873b277472\" data-wf-id='[\"c564152b-4563-46a6-f854-4c873b277472\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-short-review-input\" data-palette=\"Paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Delectable…glorious… \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ethis most cherishably Jewish of books’ \u003cem\u003eJewish Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-w-id=\"c564152b-4563-46a6-f854-4c873b277472\" data-wf-id='[\"c564152b-4563-46a6-f854-4c873b277472\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-short-review-input\" data-palette=\"Paragraph\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-w-id=\"cae58fed-a693-a4db-99c7-c80694a9930d\" data-wf-id='[\"cae58fed-a693-a4db-99c7-c80694a9930d\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\"\u003eThe scene is Otisville Prison, upstate New York. A crew of fraudsters, tax evaders, trigamists and forgers discuss matters of right and wrong in a Talmudic study and prayer group, or ‘minyan’, led by a rabbi who’s a fellow convict.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-w-id=\"df1b36b2-5526-e018-70c1-84602556b833\" data-wf-id='[\"df1b36b2-5526-e018-70c1-84602556b833\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\"\u003eAs the only prison in the federal system with a kosher deli, Otisville is the penitentiary of choice for white-collar Jewish offenders, many of whom secretly like the place. They’ve learned to game the system, so when the regime is toughened to punish a newly arrived celebrity convict who has upset the 45th president, they find devious ways to fight back.\u003cbr data-w-id=\"LineBreak\" data-wf-id='[\"LineBreak\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-w-id=\"1cd02b96-af34-8c95-5a6d-50d3878e301a\" data-wf-id='[\"1cd02b96-af34-8c95-5a6d-50d3878e301a\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\"\u003eShadowy forces up the ante by trying to ‘Epstein’ – ie assassinate – the newcomer, and visiting poetry professor Deborah Liston ends up in dire peril when she sees too much. She has helped the minyan look into their souls. Will they now step up to save her?\u003cbr data-w-id=\"LineBreak\" data-wf-id='[\"LineBreak\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-w-id=\"abed757e-bf34-75de-6703-be7c03123510\" data-wf-id='[\"abed757e-bf34-75de-6703-be7c03123510\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\"\u003eJonathan Stone brings the sensibility of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth to the post-truth era in a sharply comic novel that is also wise, profound and deeply moral.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-w-id=\"abed757e-bf34-75de-6703-be7c03123510\" data-wf-id='[\"abed757e-bf34-75de-6703-be7c03123510\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-description-input\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-w-id=\"18dc6034-53fd-e009-b791-cde7b605fd16\" data-wf-id='[\"18dc6034-53fd-e009-b791-cde7b605fd16\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-reviews-input\" data-palette=\"Paragraph\"\u003e‘Rare is the book which is so delectable that, once you have finished it, you want immediately to read it all over again, but Jonathan Stone’s glorious \u003cem data-w-id=\"b4aadbfb-50e0-ebe7-c7d5-d045b18dfd49\" data-wf-id='[\"b4aadbfb-50e0-ebe7-c7d5-d045b18dfd49\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-reviews-input\" data-palette=\"Emphasized\"\u003eThe Prison Minyan\u003c\/em\u003e is just that… Stone’s dry tones, also present in his earlier, terrific novels, surely reach an apogee in this most cherishably Jewish of books’ \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eJewish Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-w-id=\"30cc5746-9124-8c5a-bb78-5064e6dd671d\" data-wf-id='[\"30cc5746-9124-8c5a-bb78-5064e6dd671d\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-quotes-input\" data-palette=\"Paragraph\"\u003e‘Erudite, trenchant and touching, with a premise that the young Philip Roth would have envied’ \u003cstrong data-w-id=\"df08ee65-3264-a0c6-4b0e-8435a2117566\" data-wf-id='[\"df08ee65-3264-a0c6-4b0e-8435a2117566\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-quotes-input\" data-palette=\"Strong\"\u003eMichael Arditti\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-w-id=\"55c63847-9e10-839d-79a0-c5a9f4850ed3\" data-wf-id='[\"55c63847-9e10-839d-79a0-c5a9f4850ed3\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-reviews-input\" data-palette=\"Paragraph\"\u003e‘A puckish, Philip Roth-esque satire. Stone offers more, thankfully, than low-hanging comic fruit. He skilfully digs into the challenges and trials of his inmates and their incarceration as they undergo soul-searching and examine their lives, all without abandoning his effective one-liners’ \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-w-id=\"041890c7-220b-b64b-d28b-3a148f85ce9a\" data-wf-id='[\"041890c7-220b-b64b-d28b-3a148f85ce9a\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-reviews-input\" data-palette=\"Paragraph\"\u003e‘There are crimes aplenty within the prison walls...but Stone is after something more diffuse and philosophical. \u003cem data-w-id=\"92a4fb47-a80f-c347-2478-89e4338102c1\" data-wf-id='[\"92a4fb47-a80f-c347-2478-89e4338102c1\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-reviews-input\" data-palette=\"Emphasized\"\u003eThe Prison Minyan\u003c\/em\u003e occupies terrain few others will likely explore’ \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-w-id=\"f72f0bdb-5354-6b77-0ef1-a9c607678402\" data-wf-id='[\"f72f0bdb-5354-6b77-0ef1-a9c607678402\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-quotes-input\" data-palette=\"Paragraph\"\u003e‘A delicious treat. As good as any rugelach’ \u003cstrong data-w-id=\"2ad398e2-e17e-8ad5-cc93-1d32b61ef783\" data-wf-id='[\"2ad398e2-e17e-8ad5-cc93-1d32b61ef783\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-quotes-input\" data-palette=\"Strong\"\u003eTommy Schnurmacher\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-w-id=\"55f73f65-cb25-d44c-a0b1-8aab176a1c7e\" data-wf-id='[\"55f73f65-cb25-d44c-a0b1-8aab176a1c7e\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-quotes-input\" data-palette=\"Paragraph\"\u003e‘Warm, insightful, wise and very funny. Jonathan Stone has created a remarkably appealing community of prison inmates and staff. Quite brilliant’ \u003cstrong\u003eAbi Silver\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-w-id=\"95d80ca7-de46-a214-9172-a2ae4f49fe94\" data-wf-id='[\"95d80ca7-de46-a214-9172-a2ae4f49fe94\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-quotes-input\" data-palette=\"Paragraph\"\u003e‘My book of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/summer2023?src=hashtag_click\" data-w-id=\"939bdf74-d827-ba71-3f83-e0f9c7fb7fb6\" data-wf-id='[\"939bdf74-d827-ba71-3f83-e0f9c7fb7fb6\"]' data-automation-id=\"dyn-item-quotes-input\" data-palette=\"Link\"\u003et\u003c\/a\u003ehis summer so far. 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