Andrew Furman is associate professor and chair of the Department of English at Florida Atlantic University. His other books include Israel through the Jewish-American Imagination and Contemporary Jewish American Fiction and the Multicultural Dilemma.

In his endearing debut novel... Furman explores with remarkable compassion and hope the twin mysteries of loss and abandonment, and the constant struggle to keep at bay the aching burden of sadness that threatens even the most peaceful and quiet of lives. - Aryeh Lev Stollman, author of The Far Euphrates and The Illuminated Soul

Andrew Furman is associate professor and chair of the Department of English at Florida Atlantic University. His other books include Israel through the Jewish-American Imagination and Contemporary Jewish American Fiction and the Multicultural Dilemma.

In his endearing debut novel... Furman explores with remarkable compassion and hope the twin mysteries of loss and abandonment, and the constant struggle to keep at bay the aching burden of sadness that threatens even the most peaceful and quiet of lives. - Aryeh Lev Stollman, author of The Far Euphrates and The Illuminated Soul

Andrew Furman is associate professor and chair of the Department of English at Florida Atlantic University. His other books include Israel through the Jewish-American Imagination and Contemporary Jewish American Fiction and the Multicultural Dilemma.

In his endearing debut novel... Furman explores with remarkable compassion and hope the twin mysteries of loss and abandonment, and the constant struggle to keep at bay the aching burden of sadness that threatens even the most peaceful and quiet of lives. - Aryeh Lev Stollman, author of The Far Euphrates and The Illuminated Soul