Paul Toscano's memoir recounts how the Brooklyn-born grandson of Sicilian immigrants became first a convert, then a discarded dissident of an unpopular American religion, and in the process discovered the dark side of the American dream. This is a tragi-comedy of the American soul, of hollow hopes and untested ideals cracked by the crowbar of events, abandoned in shards, then revisited, individuated, revolutionized, and renewed by the workings of...