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.
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2021 s Most Highly Anticipated New Books: 26 Fiction and Nonfiction Titles to Get Lost In
On 12/23/20 at 3:00 PM EST
There is much to anticipate in the new year, and the thought of getting out and about is not the least of them. But until social distancing is a distant memory, you can still snuggle up with a good read. Enjoy the rare pleasure of turning the crisp pages of some of these intriguing books coming out in the first half of the year.
Newsweek has chosen some of the best new fiction and nonfiction for your reading pleasure.
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