# The Believers

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- Book: [The Believers](https://www.bookquiver.com/zoe-heller/the-believers) ([The Believers.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/zoe-heller/the-believers.md))
- Authors: [Zoë Heller](https://www.bookquiver.com/zoe-heller)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4188-993-1
- Published: 2008-09-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

When New York radical lawyer Joel Litvinoff falls gravely ill, his wife Audrey uncovers a secret that forces her to re-examine both her belief in him and her commitment to their forty-year marriage. Meanwhile, her ne'er-do-well adopted son, Lenny, is back on drugs again and her daughters, Karla and Rosa, are grappling with their own catastrophes and dilemmas. Rosa, a disillusioned revolutionary socialist, has found herself increasingly beguiled by the world of Orthodox Judaism; now she is being pressed to make a commitment and must decide if she is really ready to forsake all her cherished secular values for a Torah-observant life. Karla, an unhappily married hospital social worker and union activist, falls into a tumultuous affair with a conservative shop-keeper: can she really love a man whose politics she reviles? And how to choose between a life of duty and principle and her own happiness?