Are You Alone on Purpose? by Nancy Werlin

Author:Nancy Werlin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2011-12-14T05:00:00+00:00

HARRY

March

For the next two Saturdays, Harry flatly refused to go to Sabbath services at the synagogue. He didn’t plan to go ever again.

His father couldn’t make him. “What?” Harry had said the first time. “You’re going to push me screaming in the wheelchair?” His father had stared at him. Then he had left the room and, a little later, walked off to the synagogue without Harry.

And for the first time in his life, Harry had spent Saturday morning watching TV.

His father kept asking, though. This morning, he had sat right down with Harry in the kitchen and taken the sports page away from him and told him that he really wanted him to come. He understood how Harry’s faith might be wavering, but it was important to keep up the form of things. That was what life was about. And he could assure Harry that everyone at the synagogue really wanted to see him. They asked about him all the time. They were concerned.

“Yeah, I bet,” said Harry.

Finally his father had begged. He had even offered to take the car. God would understand, he’d said. It was in the Talmud that you could make allowances for sickness, and—

“I’m not going,” Harry had interrupted. “And that’s final.” He had wheeled himself out of the kitchen.

His father had left without him. In a few more weeks, Harry figured, even his father would get the idea. But, to help him along, he kept the TV on, even after his father got home.

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