In ‘Morningside Heights,’ a married couple copes with unexpected illness
As with his previous novels, Joshua Henkin pays compassionate attention to modern human predicaments.
By Joan FrankSpecial to The Washington Post
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Joshua Henkin’s prior novels (“The World Without You,” “Matrimony,” “Swimming Across the Hudson”) tend to linger in mind long after plot particulars have slipped into memory’s mists, for a shared quality of voice – a voice perhaps best characterized by compassionate attention to modern human predicaments. In remarkably plain and quiet prose, Henkin has explored the exigencies of marriage and families (especially recombined families) through unflinching yet kind depictions of the ways we live now.