This Literary Series event is part of the JCC's Wednesday's at the JCC Special Speaker Series. Individually boxed/wrapped snacks and refreshments will be servied. If you are an non-member attending this event we ask for a $10 contribution for the refreshments.
Morningside Heights tells the story of Ohio-born Pru Steiner. When she arrives in New York in 1976, she follows in a long tradition of young people determined to take the city by storm. But when she falls in love with and marries Spence Robin, her hotshot young Shakespeare professor, her life takes a turn she couldn’t have anticipated.
Joshua Henkin is the author of Swimming Across the Hudson, Matrimony, and The World Without You, winner of the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish American Fiction and finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. He was raised as an Orthodox Jew on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and now lives in Brooklyn with his wife, two daughters, and their gigantic Newfoundland puppy.