num_pages: 337
description: A major literary debut an epic tale of love failure and unexpected faith set in New York Amsterdam and Las VegasThe modern-day Jonah at the center of Joshua Max Feldman's brilliantly conceived retelling of the book of Jonah is a young Manhattan lawyer named Jonah Jacobstein. He's a lucky man: healthy and handsome with two beautiful women ready to spend the rest of their lives with him and an enormously successful career that gets more promising by the minute. He's celebrating a deal that will surely make him partner when a bizarre unexpected biblical vision at a party changes everything. Hard as he tries to forget what he saw this disturbing sign is only the first of many Jonah will witness and before long his life is unrecognizable. Though this perhaps divine intervention will be responsible for more than one irreversible loss in Jonah's life it will also cross his path with that of Judith Bulbrook an intense breathtakingly intelligent woman who's no stranger to loss herself. As this funny and bold novel moves to Amsterdam and then Las Vegas Feldman examines the way we live now while asking an age-old question: How do you know if you're chosen?
language: English
title: The Book of Jonah
publisher: Henry Holt and Co.