And although Pru keeps her own name, Steiner, their marriage is fairly old-fashioned.
One is marriage, and Pru ends up falling in love and marrying Spence Robin, her English Professor. It’s set in the '70s-when civil rights and women’s rights are just coming to fruition, but the world is still stuck on certain conventions. Paula Bomer Morningside Heights starts out with Pru, a young Midwestern Orthodox Jewish woman, who longs to leave the Midwest and does, and after Yale, tries to make it as an actress in New York City. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and directs the MFA program in Fiction Writing at Brooklyn College. Henkin 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 (winner of the 2012 Edward Lewis Wallant Award for American Jewish Fiction and a finalist for the 2012 National Jewish Book Award). It’s a modern classic of the human condition.
Joshua Henkin’s latest novel, Morningside Heights (Pantheon), beautifully and tragically examines family, dementia, and how people traverse the world they are thrown into.
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