Moving Kings: A Novel

ISBN: 039959020X

Author: Cohen, Joshua

Condition: New

A propulsive, incendiary novel about faith, race, class, and what it means to have a home, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The NetanyahusA Jewish Sopranos . . . utterly engrossing, full of passionate sympathy . . . Cohen is an extraordinary prose stylist, surely one of the most prodigious at work in American fiction today.-The New YorkerONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR-Vulture, BookforumOne of the boldest voices of his generation, Joshua Cohen returns with Moving Kings, a powerful and provocative novel that interweaves, in profoundly intimate terms, the housing crisis in Americas poor black and Hispanic neighborhoods with the world's oldest conflict, in the Middle East.The year is 2015, and twenty-one-year-olds Yoav and Uri, veterans of the last Gaza War, have just completed their compulsory military service in the Israel Defense Forces. In keeping with national tradition, they take a year off for rest, recovery, and travel. They come to New York City and begin working for Yoavs distant cousin David King-a proud American patriot, Republican, and Jew, and the recently divorced proprietor of Kings Moving Inc., a heavyweight in the tri-state areas moving and storage industries. Yoav and Uri now must struggle to become reacquainted with civilian life, but its not easy to move beyond their traumatic pasts when their days are spent kicking down doors as eviction-movers in the ungentrified corners of the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens, throwing out delinquent tenants and seizing their possessions. And what starts off as a profitable if eerily familiar job-an Occupation-quickly turns violent when they encounter one homeowner seeking revenge.