Anchor: Shulman aside, you could find one-line descriptions of Goodman's main characters in any half-dozen American-Jewish  the rabbi with two sons, one brilliant and prodigal, one duller but more loyal; the Holocaust survivor numbed by his past; the daughters tempted by the twin heresies of feminism and Zionism (Israel is viewed as a nation of faithless sinners by these ultra-Orthodox Jews); the assimilationist Jew who comes to a bad end.
Entailed: Goodman's main characters were a lot like American-Jewish rabbis.
Contradiction: Goodman's main characters are never Jewish.
Contradiction: Goodman's main characters were a lot like Baptist ministers.
Contradiction: Goodman likes to describe his main characters in detail. 
Contradiction: The people driving are sleep.
Contradiction: A young girl is holding water balloons.