{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_jv57biwvy2astf6vn5ya","title":"‘East of Eden’ was my family Bible — until I read the real one.","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/east-of-eden-was-my-family-bible-until-i-read-the-real-one-jv57biwvy2","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_jv57biwvy2astf6vn5ya","seq":1421461,"kind":"article","title":"‘East of Eden’ was my family Bible — until I read the real one.","url":"https://forward.com/forward-newsletters/looking-forward/853568/john-steinbeck-east-of-eden-elia-zoe-kazan-netflix-adaptation-bible","summary":"I didn’t know until recently whether the house I grew up in had a Bible, but I always knew we had a first edition of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden. It’s my mother’s, gifted to her by her boss at Brattle Book Shop, an antiquarian book store in Boston, where she worked in college. Its... The post ‘East of Eden’ was my family Bible — until I read the real one. appeared first on The Forward .","published":"2026-10-02T18:45:56Z","seen":"2026-10-02T20:00:27Z","lang":"en","country":"IL","source":{"id":"kite-forward-com-e9445f","name":"forward.com","domain":"forward.com","outlet":{"wikidata":"Q154301","name":"The Forward","type":"newspaper","designations":["jewish newspaper"]}},"via":"kite-forward-com-e9445f","topics":["books","culture","looking forward","eden","elia kazan","john steinbeck","netflix","zoe kazan"],"authors":["PJ Grisar"],"entities":[{"id":"Q107525411","name":"East of Eden","type":"other"}],"story":"st_jv57biwvy2astf6vn5ya","category":"arts-culture-entertainment","category_p":0.3499999940395355,"category2":"lifestyle-leisure","sentiment":"neutral","tone":0.07000000029802322,"political":0.019999999552965164}]}