The Cantor's Son-coming soon!

As we’ve all learned in our life experience, growing up is never easy, and if you’re a minister’s child it’s harder. Like a celebrity or politician your life is under the magnifying glass. The congregation and the community seem to have higher expectations. People forget that kids are kids. My

new novel The Cantor’s Son (Solstice Publishing, 2016-coming soon) is about Rabbi-Cantor Jeff Reimer, who after an absence of forty-six years, returns to River City, Iowa as spiritual leader of Temple Beth Shalom. This was his father’s first pulpit as Cantor and where Jeff had his Bar Mitzvah. As Jeff connects with the congregation and a variety of issues, he also connects with his past and reminisces about the year of his Bar Mitzvah, and the pivotal events and personal relationships that have led him back again, and that makes Jeff the man he has become. This is a humorous coming-of-age story set in the mid-sixties where Jeff fights off the stigma of being a clergyman’s son, and has to contend with Junior High shop classes, B’nai Mitzvah party dances and a semi-reluctant romance with April Blackman.