Welcome Back Bruce Young!

Before we get going on another amazing look at C.S. Lewis's The Great Divorce, I wanted to briefly announce the book for next month so everyone can purchase their copy. Kako recommended My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok (author of the Award-winning The Chosen) and I've decided on it to be next month's book. You can buy your copy here or at any major book store. Here's a synopsis to get you interested:

Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day, and believes in the Ribbono Shel Olom, the Master of the Universe. Asher Lev is an artist who is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels, even when it leads him to blasphemy. In this stirring and often visionary novel, Chaim Potok traces Asher's passage between these two identities, the one consecrated to God, the other subject only to the imagination.

Asher Lev grows up in a cloistered Hasidic community in postwar Brooklyn, a world suffused by ritual and revolving around a charismatic Rebbe. But in time, his gift as an artist threaten to estrange him from the world and the parents he adores. As it follows his struggle, My Name is Asher Lev becomes a luminous portrait of the artist, by turns heartbreaking and exultant, a modern classic.

Now back to The Great Divorce. Much thanks to our guest blogger Bruce Young.