The Book of Jonah
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Jonah Jacobstein is a lucky man: young, healthy and handsome, he has two beautiful women ready to spend the rest of their lives with him, and an enormously successful legal career that gets more promising by the minute. A bizarre, unexpected biblical vision at a party one night will change that forever. Hard as he tries to forget it, this upsetting sign is only the first of many Jonah will see, 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. In this brilliantly conceived retelling of The Book of Jonah, Feldman examines the way we live now, and the unexpected places and people we look to for salvation and the chance to start anew --
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It was starting to be a good “quick read,” but then it got kind of weird and all over the place. I guess that happens when the main characters starts having hallucinations.
Uneven, interesting book. I related strongly with the first part of the book and his description of life in a large corporate law firm, having worked in two of them for 23 years myself. I didn't really feel the story directly compared to Jonah's story in the Bible, but appreciated the idea of using a biblical story in a modern setting. I couldn't relate as well to Judith – she was so walled off even as to herself that I think it may be hard for anyone to relate. But in the end it was worth reading and held my interest and made me think.
