Holy Unexpected: My New Life As a Jew
by By Chotzinoff, Robin
Category: Religion , Judaism , General

Raised a born-again agnostic, Robin Chotzinoff had no  interest in religion?and practically no experience in it?  until she turned forty. When she suddenly discovered a  belief in God, she had no idea what to do next.  In Holy Unexpected she describes her journey from a  privileged New York childhood through years of unhappiness,  drugs, and drift. She investigates what she believed  in before she believed in God (the healing power of junk  food, music, psychopharmacology), and how a happy  marriage impelled her toward a higher power. When she  discovers that Judaism embraces arguing with God, hot  sex, and acts as opposed to beliefs, she embarks on a  journey to reconstruct her Jewish heritage and forge a  relationship with her faith.  Robin wrestles with the meaning of Torah, discovers  how to keep the Sabbath and still go to Walmart for  duct tape, and learns to pray while snowboarding. But her  real education in the meaning of Judaism occurs as she  rides the ups and downs of day-to-day life, and prepares  both for her bat mitzvah and for her father's death.  Writing with enormous humor and intimacy,  Chotzinoff takes readers on an unexpected religious  journey lit by humor and grace.