When his father dies, it falls to Larryโthe secular son in a family of Orthodox Brooklyn Jewsโto recite the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, every day for eleven months. But to the horror and dismay of his sister, Larry refuses, imperiling the fate of his fatherโs soul. To appease her, he hires a stranger through a website called kaddish.com to say the prayer insteadโa decision that will have profound, and very personal, repercussions. Irreverent, hilarious, and wholly irresistible, Nathan Englanderโs tale of a son who makes a diabolical compromise brilliantly captures the tensions between tradition and modernity.