WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION2021 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNERA NEW YORK
TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2021 A KIRKUS BEST FICTION BOOK OF
2021Absorbing delightful hilarious breathtaking and the best and most relevant novel I’ve
read in what feels like forever. —Taffy Brodesser-Akner The New York Times Book Review Corbin
College not quite upstate New York winter 1959–1960: Ruben Blum a Jewish historian—but not
an historian of the Jews—is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an
exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up
for an interview family unexpectedly in tow Blum plays the reluctant host to guests who
proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies. Mixing fiction with nonfiction the campus
novel with the lecture The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive genre-bending comedy of blending
identity and politics that finds Joshua Cohen at the height of his powers.
