Hyman

Rabbi Hyman Babushkin has cultivated a progressive religious movement for half a century — but as he turns 83, he has lost his wife, his prostate, and, perhaps, his faith. The loyalty of key women among his cohort is wavering, and he is beset by fantasies of fleeing back to the ultra-Orthodox world from which he was excommunicated during the heady 1960s. What’s a guru to do? (fiction, 170 pp.)