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Article: Turbulent Souls: A Catholic Son's Return to His Jewish Family.(Review)
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- Commonweal
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- March 12, 1999
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Stephen J. Dubner William Morrow & Company, $24, 320 pp.
Paul Elie
Stephen Dubner and I met on the first day of graduate school and established a kind of friendship based on obvious likenesses. He was from upstate New York and so was I. We had both been messing around with music but now we were going to be serious about learning how to write. Neither of us had thought we would wind up at a fancy university, and we didn't know whether to call attention to our surprise or keep quiet about it. And it gradually emerged that both of us were religious. I was a Catholic and Stephen was a - well, he wasn't sure what he was, but he was animated, even agitated, by ...