Asher spends the summer with Jacob in Provincetown on Cape Cod, where he is inspired to paint sunlight and seagulls. Even removed from his Hasidic community, Asher remains true to his religion. He says his morning prayers at the edge of the ocean and prepares kosher food in his bedroom. Jacob's wife Tanya questions Asher's faith, saying that her brother's piety could not save him from the Nazis. Asher paints a self-portrait. When he looks at the way his earlocks hang down in the painting, he starts to tuck them behind his ears.
Jacob lectures Asher on truth in art. Jacob paints in the style of an abstract expressionist because he thinks that creating a three-dimensional image on a two-dimensional canvas equals lying. When Asher hides his payos out of shame, Jacob worries that.....
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