If you knew whom the next victim of domestic violence was going to be, would you raise you fists, or even your voice, to stop the beating? Jodi Walton is shot in the back while fleeing from the older man with whom she lives. She runs deep into the dense Adirondack forest surrounding her home, and believing she will soon be with Jesus, runs through the icy winter darkness to embrace light she see in the distance. Walton stumbles upon "No Place," the remote, matriarchal retreat of a tiny band of aging fugitives. "The Cenacle," as the middle-aged reprobates call themselves, fled New York City after fighting a small war against a violent street gang known as "God's Will." A decade Later, the Women of No Place remain in hiding with their families, praying the law and the past never catch up with them. The Cenacle adopts Jodi Walton and teaches her how to defend herself and her dignity. The skills she learns could save her life...
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Rabbi Moss Krupnick has been studying martial arts for fifteen years, and holds a blackbelt and instructor certification in Shoa Lin Kempo kung fu and jui jitsu. His specialty is the Japanese long sword, a weapon with which he has competed internationally.
A graduate of Columbia University and The Jewish Theological Seminary, Rabbi Krupnick is a hospital chaplain, with extensive experience counseling victims of trauma, domestic violence, and AIDS at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and Overlook Hospital, both in New Jersey. His next novel, The AIDS Bible: Genesis, is due in the spring of 2002.
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Author Moss Krupnick's fast-moving adventure story is about strong women, black belt karate, a Utopian nature retreat, and an insular upstate New York community. Initially drawn to reading it because of the backcountry wilderness setting so attractive in these stressful times, DAUGHTERS OF UTOPIA kept me up late into the night reading. I had fully intended to read just a chapter or so - however I quickly became drawn into the threads of these women's lives. The serious clandestine nature of the group's activities thoroughly mixed so well with well-drawn fun characters and great stretches of humor brings to mind Edward Abbey's Monkey Wrench Gang (1975) and other titles. This is a novel that touches us all at some point in our lives .... or someone we know and care about. I hope to see more from this promising author.
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Fast paced, engaging, well written. A must read!
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