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Chosen By God: A Brother's Journey

Joshua Hammer

The story of an unfolding relationship between brothers. It tells of Joshs younger brother, Tony, a troubled teenager who traveled to Israel to work on a kibbutz and fell in with an ultra-orthodox Jewish sect. As Tonys fundamentalist fervor and hostility toward the secular world deepened, so did his estrangement from his family, including his older brother.

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Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current InterestMajor1999FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • Tony62%
    • Josh55%

  2. 02 Central places

    • Israel75%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    30 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 74%.