Robert Cohen

Watching his career and marriage disintegrate, Samuel Karnish meets a Hasidic couple from Brooklyn and begins an unlikely friendship with them, an event that leaves him morally confused and doubting his own faith. 15,000 first printing. Tour.

A Novel

Here and Now

Donald

Despite being reviewed in the New York Times (and elsewhere too, I imagine) this book seems to have fallen between the cracks. There are no reviews of it here or on Librarything, and I only discovered it by chance.

I liked it a lot. Cohen's writing style grew on me as the book progressed, and the story was good enough to keep me reading even if the writing had not been as good as it was. Best of all, the Hasidic characters in the book are not merely 'spiritual counterweights' to the secular protagonist, like I feared they would be.

This is a fun and easy read, and I recommend it highly. And for those who care about such things: the hardcover edition is a nice looking book!

Here and Now A Novel