The rituals she keeps probably give her a connection to something good in her past or bring her joy. Why do you suppose this is? Are there rites or rituals you engage in, religious or otherwise? Some of the recent comments posted about Morningside Heights:Īlthough Pru is no longer observant, she still practices some of her religion's rites and rituals. It's about the love between women and men and children and parents, about the things we give up in the face of adversity, about what endures when life turns out differently from what we thought we signed up for.įirst published in hardcover/ebook in June 2021. Morningside Heights is a sweeping and compassionate novel about a marriage surviving hardship. Arlo, a wealthy entrepreneur who invests in biotech, may be his father's last, best hope. Meanwhile, Spence's estranged son from his first marriage has come back into their lives. One day, feeling particularly isolated, Pru meets a man, and the possibility of new romance blooms. With their daughter Sarah away at medical school, Pru must struggle on her own. The Great Man can't concentrate he falls asleep reading The New York Review of Books.

Thirty years later, something is wrong with Spence. But when she falls in love with Spence Robin, her hotshot young Shakespeare professor, her life takes a turn she couldn't have anticipated. When Ohio-born Pru Steiner arrives in New York in 1976 after graduating from Yale, she follows in a long tradition of young people determined to take the city by storm. A tender, powerful, and big-hearted novel about love in the face of loss, from the award-winning author of The World Without You and Matrimony.

Morningside Heights by Joshua Henkin