{"product_id":"the-orchard-a-novel-isbn-9780062974747","title":"The Orchard: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA NATION­AL JEW­ISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Recommended Book From:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times * Good Morning America * Entertainment Weekly * Electric Literature\u003c\/em\u003e * \u003cem\u003eThe New York Post \u003c\/em\u003e* \u003cem\u003eAlma * The Millions * Book Riot \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA commanding debut and a\u003cbr\u003epoignant coming-of-age story about a devout Jewish high school student whose\u003cbr\u003eplunge into the secularized world threatens everything he knows of himself\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAri\u003cbr\u003eEden’s life has always been governed by strict rules. In ultra-Orthodox\u003cbr\u003eBrooklyn, his days are dedicated to intense study and religious rituals, and\u003cbr\u003eadolescence feels profoundly lonely. So when his family announces that they are\u003cbr\u003emoving to a glitzy Miami suburb, Ari seizes his unexpected chance for\u003cbr\u003ereinvention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnrolling\u003cbr\u003ein an opulent Jewish academy, Ari is stunned by his peers’ dizzying wealth,\u003cbr\u003eambition, and shameless pursuit of life’s pleasures. When the academy’s golden\u003cbr\u003eboy, Noah, takes Ari under his wing, Ari finds himself entangled in the\u003cbr\u003eschool’s most exclusive and wayward group. These friends are magnetic and\u003cbr\u003edefiant—especially Evan, the brooding genius of the bunch, still living in the\u003cbr\u003eshadow of his mother’s death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eInfluenced\u003cbr\u003eby their charismatic rabbi, the group begins testing their religion in\u003cbr\u003eunconventional ways. Soon Ari and his friends are pushing moral boundaries and\u003cbr\u003ecareening toward a perilous future—one in which the traditions of their faith\u003cbr\u003eare repurposed to mysterious, tragic ends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMesmerizing and playful,\u003cbr\u003eheartrending and darkly romantic, \u003cem\u003eThe Orchard\u003c\/em\u003e probes\u003cbr\u003ethe conflicting forces that determine who we become: the heady relationships of\u003cbr\u003eyouth, the allure of greatness, the doctrines we inherit, and our concealed\u003cbr\u003edesires.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"David Hopen’s riveting debut joins the urgency of a thriller with the devastating consequence of a spiritual crisis for its hero, who is no less imperiled by his religion than by the threat of its loss.  In Ari Eden’s story the clash between youth and experience, godlessness and piety, individualism and conformity, will feel both devastatingly familiar and utterly new.  \u003cem\u003eThe Orchard\u003c\/em\u003e throws open the doors to this world, and introduces a major new voice.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSusan Choi, National Book Award winning author of Trust Exercise\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Orchard\u003c\/em\u003e is a wildly ambitious, propulsive novel touching on big, life-altering topics, but David Hopen manages that weight by never losing grip on the story, which blends philosophical questions with a unique thriller and a group of teenagers who command your attention. At the heart of the novel there’s a yearning, a reckoning with those moments when we transform and when we wonder if we can ever go back. I’d be so wary of comparing any novel to Donna Tartt’s \u003cem\u003eThe Secret History\u003c\/em\u003e, but \u003cem\u003eThe Orchard\u003c\/em\u003e can handle it because it diverges in such interesting ways.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See Here\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Audacious…. With \u003cem\u003eThe Orchard\u003c\/em\u003e Hopen may have taken the boldest step yet in the ongoing turn of the American Jewish novel back to the sources of Judaism…. \u003cem\u003eThe Orchard\u003c\/em\u003e [is] something distinctively new in fiction.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTablet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[\u003cem\u003eThe Orchard\u003c\/em\u003e] makes good on its promise to shine light on the workings of privilege in every culture.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrime Reads\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“\u003c\/strong\u003eTo be transported, wholesale, into a new and unfamiliar world is one of literature’s great gifts, and the opening pages of David Hopen’s ambitious debut novel, ‘The Orchard,’ promise exactly that…. Hopen is a stylish, atmospheric writer whose characters inhabit sensuous tableaus…. All-encompassing…. [Hopen’s] talent is evident.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Powerful and stirring, like a 2020 Jewish version of ‘The Catcher in the Rye.’ Structured into chapters by month throughout a typical school year and tackling the ‘majestic sadness’ that is tragedy, this journal-like book written by a Yale Law School student will definitely take root.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGood Morning America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Both fresh and affecting… Essentially \u003cem\u003eThe Secret History\u003c\/em\u003e set among highly observant Jewish Floridians…. Heretics, sex, drugs, and even Talmudic rituals that border on bacchanalia abound.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A poignant and utterly devastating experience…. ‘The Orchard’ is intense and deeply moving…. Its questions are not easy, nor are the answers it provides. To discover a thought-provoking young writer like David Hopen this early in his career is a rare privilege indeed.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnniston Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eDavid Hopen’s ambitious debut novel combines the religiously observant world of Chaim Potok’s books with the academic hothouse of Donna Tartt’s \u003cem\u003eThe Secret History\u003c\/em\u003e and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s observations of the rich and privileged…. [A] singular addition to the world of Jewish fiction as well as a notable variation on the classic campus novel.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The most brilliant novel I read this year.... A wildly engrossing bildungsroman.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBook Riot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889364201701,"sku":"NP9780062974747","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062974747.jpg?v=1730231087","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-orchard-a-novel-isbn-9780062974747","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}