Joy Comes in the Morning: A Novel

Rosen, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 0374180261 / ISBN 13: 9780374180263

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Joy Comes in the Morning: A Novel
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374180261
• ISBN 13: 9780374180263
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Deborah Green is a woman of passionate contradictions--a rabbi who craves goodness and surety while wrestling with her own desires and with the sorrow and pain she sees around her. Her life changes when she visits the hospital room of Henry Friedman, an older man who has attempted suicide. His parents were murdered in the Holocaust when he was a child, and all his life he's struggled with difficult questions: Can happiness really come after such loss, or does the very wish profane the dead? Can religious promises ever bring peace? Deborah's encounter with Henry and his family draws her into a world of tragedy, frailty, love, and, finally, hope.

The New Yorker called Rosen's first novel "An impressive debut--a highly original addition to the distinguished line of Jewish-American romances." He has fulfilled the promise of his first fiction in this contemporary story of classic scope, whose characters hunger for love, grapple with faith and doubt, and seek to bind themselves to something sacred in the midst of modern chaos.

About the Author

Jonathan Rosen is the author of The Talmud and the Internet and the novel Eve's Apple. His essays have appeared in The New York Times and The New Yorker, among other publications. He is editor of a forthcoming series of short books on Jewish subjects.