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The Chosen
by Chaim Potok
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
― Aristotle, quoted by Diogenes Laertius in Lives of the Philosophers
This is my first Chaim Potok novel and my goodness was it lovely. It's a small story, really, between two Jewish young men, Reuven (Modern Orthodox) and Danny (Hasidic) set in 1940's Brooklyn, New York who become friends after one inflicts an injury on the other during a baseball game. I think, however, that no story about a true friendship can ever be small. These two teenaged boys helped me to imagine how to navigate deep-seated difference, to make room for pain and silence, and to cherish another person as they grow no matter how circuitous the journey. What a gift.
― Aristotle, quoted by Diogenes Laertius in Lives of the Philosophers
This is my first Chaim Potok novel and my goodness was it lovely. It's a small story, really, between two Jewish young men, Reuven (Modern Orthodox) and Danny (Hasidic) set in 1940's Brooklyn, New York who become friends after one inflicts an injury on the other during a baseball game. I think, however, that no story about a true friendship can ever be small. These two teenaged boys helped me to imagine how to navigate deep-seated difference, to make room for pain and silence, and to cherish another person as they grow no matter how circuitous the journey. What a gift.