num_pages: 389
description: 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 he's struggled with difficult questions. Deborah's encounter with Henry and his family draws her into a world of tragedy, frailty, love, and, finally, hope.
language: English
title: Joy Comes in the Morning
titlecomplete: Joy Comes in the Morning
genres: American, Judaism, Jewish, Judaica, Literature, Contemporary, Fiction
ratings_count: 399
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Edward Lewis Wallant Award
publisher: Picador USA