He is also the author of the novels SWIMMING ACROSS THE HUDSON, a Los Angeles Times Notable Book MATRIMONY, a New York Times Notable Book and THE WORLD WITHOUT YOU, which was named an Editors' Choice Book by The New York Times and The Chicago Tribune and was the winner of the 2012 Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish American Fiction and a finalist for the 2012 National Jewish Book Award. Joshua Henkin's new novel, MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS, has recently been published by Pantheon. He lives with his wife and daughters in Brooklyn, NY, and directs and teaches in the MFA program in Fiction Writing at Brooklyn College. This is a stunning achievement.Joshua Henkin's new novel, MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS, has recently been published by Pantheon. Equally well handled is Pru’s transformation from wife and lover to caretaker-wrenching changes that Henkin conveys without dissolving into sentimentality or cliché, but rather leaving readers with a kernel of hope. Henkin reaches further back to describe how Pru escaped her Orthodox Jewish family in Ohio and landed in grad school at Columbia University in 1976, and shows how Spence was a wunderkind in Columbia’s English department, making the tragedy of his illness particularly poignant. At 15, Arlo came to live with Spence for two years, and the marked contrast between his past and living with an erudite, structured father a kind stepmother and a bright younger sister is drawn with humor and insight. The focus then turns to Arlo Zackheim, Spence’s son from his first marriage, whose vagabond, self-centered mother left him with an emptiness he finds hard to fill. You’ll be keeping people waiting for the rest of your life”).
Their daughter, Sarah, a med student, arrives from Los Angeles on a delayed flight, and Pru wryly reassures Sarah not to worry (“It’ll be good practice for when you’re a doctor. 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 ( The World Without You) brilliantly conveys the complexities of a New York City family in this humane, compulsively readable tale.
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