Joy Comes in the Morning
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ISBN: 0312424272 / Publisher: Picador, August 2005
Wrestling with the dramatic contradictions in her life--her passionate devotion to her faith, her own desires, and the sorrow and pain around her--rabbi Deborah Green discovers a world of tragedy, madness, love, and redemption when she encounters Henry Friedman, an older patient and Holocaust survivor who had attempted suicide. By the author of Eve's Apple. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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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. Deborah's encounter with Henry and his family draws her into a world of tragedy, frailty, love, and, finally, hope.
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