That protagonist, who ismentored by the sculptor Jacob Kahn, paints a scene with his mother torn betweenhis art and his father's travels called (+) Brooklyn Crucifixion.
In one novel by this author, the protagonist's mother becomes despondentafter her brother Yaakov dies in a car accident in Detroit. That protagonist, who ismentored by the sculptor Jacob Kahn, paints a scene with his mother torn betweenhis art and his father's travels called (+) Brooklyn Crucifixion. Those parents moveto Vienna to start Ladover yeshivas. In another novel by this author, the protagonist shares a hospital room with the blind Billy and the one-eyed boxer Mr. Savo after being hit in the eye with a (*) baseball; that ball had been hit by Danny Saunders, who decides not to follow in his father's footsteps as a Hasidic rabbi. The protagonist, who decides to become a Modern Orthodox rabbi, is Reuven Malter. For ten points, name this author of My Name is Asher Lev and The Chosen.
In one novel by this author, the protagonist's mother becomes despondentafter her brother Yaakov dies in a car accident in Detroit.
Chaim Potok