Here There Is No Why

<p>...a political poetic and unputdownable page-turner of a novel. <strong>-Ali Viterbi playwright author of <em>In Every Generation</em></strong></p><p></p><p>...offers a cast of complex characters and raises a number of provocative theological questions. <strong>-Michael Kinnamon author of <em>Summer of Love and Evil </em>and <em>The Nominee</em></strong></p><p></p><p>...a compelling entertaining and uplifting novel that will leave you inspired. Don't miss it!<strong>-Richard Agler author of <em>The Tragedy Test</em> and <em>A God That We Can Believe In</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Did Chaim Lerner acclaimed Israeli author and Holocaust survivor kill himself in 1983 thirty-eight years after surviving Auschwitz? If so was it traumatic memories finally catching up to him? Or despair over Holocaust denialism? Or ordinary difficult health issues-an aching hip a damaged knee? Or simply a deadly episode of depression?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Or was it murder?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>In 2005 Judah Loeb Lerner's former student and now a struggling American journalist and single father travels to Jerusalem to investigate Lerner's death. He drags along his fifteen-year-old daughter Hannah and they team up with Charlie Judah's former Hebrew University roommate now a Jerusalem homicide detective. Their investigation takes them through the darker corners of the Israeli psyche where they uncover secrets that threaten to destroy Lerner's reputation and alter Jewish history. While probing the mysteries of Israel's past they encounter personal betrayal heartbreak and the fragile possibilities of forgiveness and redemption.</span></p>