![]() ![]() ![]() In 2006, Shakespeare scholar Spence Robin, 57, is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's, and his wife, Pru Steiner, is forced to return his book advance. Henkin brilliantly conveys the complexities of a New York City family in this humane, compulsively readable tale. So much that happens in this book is unexpected that it reads at the pace of a suspense novel, but its greatest achievement is to make us feel that we are in the presence of real people, living out their joys and sorrows and making their way in the real world." - Sigrid Nunez But it is a delightful read as well, because the people here are such thoroughly engaging company. How much can befall a marriage, and what extraordinary demands must sometimes be met for loved ones to endure. "Reading Morningside Heights is an emotional experience. ![]() But the real magic of Morningside Heights is the way it lifts us up, reminding us that ordinary people undertake extraordinary acts of survival every day." - Julie Orringer "In the sheer pleasure of reading Joshua Henkin's new novel-of following its swift narrative movements, getting to know its all-too-human characters, inhabiting its detail-perfect settings, its relentlessly accurate portrayals- of marriage and parenthood and siblinghood-we can almost forget, for moments on end, that its subject is one of the most painful imaginable: the loss of a self, of a marriage, of a shared life. ![]()
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