Club Revelation: A Novel

In his follow-up to High Holiday Sutra, Allan Appel takes another irreverent view of religious manners, this time examining what we mean by faith and marriage in twentieth-century America. In Club Revelation, three interfaith Jewish/Christian couples unwittingly rent the ground floor of their brownstone to a charming, young Southern evangelist. Serving up his own blend of Christian cuisine, he opens a restaurant in the space, hoping to convert the Jews of the Upper West Side. His scheme threatens to destroy the harmony of the building when one of his six landlords finds comfort - and much more - in the preacher's conversion-by-gastronomy methods.