A PLACE OF EXODUS Home, Memory, and Texas

This audiobook highlights the tension between youthful curiosity and the need for some religious leaders to avoid challenging questions. In this memoir, author/narrator David Biespiel beautifully describes his youth as a Jewish boy in Texas and how his unorthodox questions led his rabbi to banish him from the synagogue. Biespiel's journey is fascinating, as are the questions and doubts he confronts--from that fateful confrontation until his return as an adult decades later. Biespiel's performance is mesmerizing, and his delivery and tone are precise and perfect. But what sets the book apart is how listeners will be drawn into Biespiel's world in a way that allows them to relate his story to their own lives regardless of their spiritual affiliation. D.J.S. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine [Published: APRIL 2022]