Morningside Heights by Joshua Henkin
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is a real and touching story about a well-loved Shakespeare teacher a Columbia who gets early onset Alzheimers. It’s also a story about a complicated family with ex-wives and step-children and abandonment and love and belonging. It’s also a love letter to New York City and its people.
I’ve lived in New York for all of my twenties and the characters in this story jump off the paper and are real and textured. They try, they fail, and they try again. They let each other down, they love each other fiercely. They take care of each other. They stand by each other. They show up for each other.
Each character in this book is unique and familiar and it’s not possible not to fall in love with them.
with gratitude to netgalley and Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.
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