Joy Comes in the Morning: A Novel

Deborah Green is a woman of passionate contradictions--a rabbi who craves goodness and surety while wrestling with her own desires and with the sorrow and pain she sees around her. Her life changes when she visits the hospital room of Henry Friedman an older man who has attempted suicide. His parents were murdered in the Holocaust when he was a child and all his life hes struggled with difficult questions. Deborahs encounter with Henry and his family draws her into a world of tragedy frailty love and finally hope.