Episode 622: Joshua Henkin - Morningside Heights
Thirty years later, something is wrong with Spence. The Great Man can\u2019t concentrate; he falls asleep reading The New York Review of Books. With their daughter, Sarah, away at medical school, Pru must struggle on her own to care for him. One day, feeling especially isolated, Pru meets a man, and the possibility of new romance blooms. Meanwhile, Spence\u2019s estranged son from his first marriage has come back into their lives. Arlo, a wealthy entrepreneur who invests in biotech, may be his father\u2019s last, best hope.
Morningside Heights is a sweeping and compassionate novel about a marriage surviving hardship. It\u2019s about the love between women and men, and children and parents; about the things we give up in the face of adversity; and about how to survive when life turns out differently from what we thought we signed up for.