A moving, often hilarious tale of David Hays' discovery of faith, community, and the links between manhood and boyhood.
At the age of sixty-six, David Hays became a member of a synagogue for the first time in more than fifty years. Soon after, he decided to become a bar mitzvah. Borrowing his grandson's beginner Hebrew workbook, he joined a class of twelve-year-olds whose mischievous behaviour led Hays to dub them "The Hormone Hurricanes".
This is the story of Hays' new-found appreciation of Judaism's ancient history and culture and his awakening to a dormant part of his own identity.
This beautifully written, searingly honest chronicle illuminates such universal themes as faith, intermarriage, family, aging, and death.
