The Book Circle will meet again on Wednesday, Dec. 15, at 2 p.m. on Zoom to discuss David Hopen’s The Orchard: A Novel, a National Jewish Book Award finalist. This selection, a coming-of-age story about a devout Jewish high school student in ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn, traces his trajectory to glitzy Miami and the challenging effects of the secular world on his understanding of himself and his beliefs.

The Orchard probes the conflicting forces at work on the protagonist’s young mind.

The book circle meets monthly to explore works about Jews and by Jewish writers. For information, email the shul at ctigreenport@gmail.com with a message for Susan Rosenstreich, coordinator.