Larry’s father has died but rather than say Kaddish (the Jewish prayer for the dead) for a year, he logs on to a website and hires an unknown ‘stand in’ to say the prayer every day for 11 months and shepherd his father’s soul to rest. This act will have consequences, and the rest of the story is Larry’s attempt to make things right. This is an interesting story that weaves the internet and websites with Orthodox Judaism and religious tradition. The tensions that exist between the those things echo the tensions between one generation and another. Is there really an APP for everything we want to do? Was Larry’s defiance of tradition simply a phase? He’s not a teenager - he’s an adult. Is reciting Kaddish such an onerous task for a man who loved his father? While its a haunting tale - Larry seems like two very different people. The dreams he has don’t work for me: they don’t reveal much about the character or move the plot forward. The story is about loss and redemption and for me there is as much to like as there is to not care for. He both scorns and embraces his religion/upbringing. His return to ‘make things right’ makes him quite single minded.