The Family Morfawitz

Hadassah Morfawitz fled Nazi Germany with her siblings, determined to live in New York City and make it her own. With her marriage to another Holocaust survivor, Zev Kretinberg, Hadassah has cemented her place in the Park Avenue synagogue society. She has ambitious dreams of wealth and power and has developed devious plans to get what she wants. When their son Hezekial is tasked with writing a family history, he unwittingly uncovers his mother’s long-held secrets while transcribing his father’s sins. He has a choice: either cover up the past or get his revenge. Faulkner Society Award–winning Turtel’s (Greetings from Asbury Park) adaptation of the Greek classic Metamorphosis is an intricate and twisted story of a family with skeletons buried deep in its closets. Assaf Cohen deftly captures the quirks and foibles of this cast of characters with no moral compass or desire to change.