One of the boldest voices of his generation, Joshua Cohen returns with Moving Kings, a propulsive, incendiary novel that interweaves, in profoundly intimate terms, the housing crisis in America-s poor black and Hispanic neighborhoods with the world-s oldest conflict, in the Middle East. The year is 2015, and twenty-one-year-olds Yoav and Uri, veterans of the last Gaza War, have just completed their compulsory military service in the Israel Defense Forces. In keeping with national tradition, they take a year off for rest, recovery, and travel. They come to New York City and begin working for Yoav-s distant cousin David King - a proud American patriot, Republican, and Jew, and the recently divorced proprietor of King-s Moving Inc., a heavyweight in the Tri-State area-s moving and storage industries. What starts off as a profitable if eerily familiar job - an -Occupation- - quickly turns violent when they encounter one homeowner seeking revenge. Driven by Cohen-s characteristic intelli
