Here and Now - by Robert Cohen (Paperback)

About the Book

As Samuel Karnish watches his career run aground and his marriage disintegrate, he finds himself on a flight to his best friend's third wedding, thrust into an awkward friendship with a young Hasidic couple from Brooklyn--a friendship that leads him on a strange odyssey and sends him reeling toward what may be his truest self. National ads/media.

Book Synopsis

From Simon & Schuster, Here and Now is Robert Cohen's unforgettable novel about faith and relationships--and the many questions that comes with both.

Watching his career and marriage disintegrate, Samuel Karnish meets a Hasidic couple from Brooklyn and begins an unlikely friendship with them, an event that leaves him morally confused and doubting his own faith.

About the Author

Robert Cohen is the author of three previous novels, The Organ Builder, The Here and Now, and Inspired Sleep, and a collection of short stories. Winner of a Lila Atcheston Wallace -Reader's Digest Writers Award, the Ribalow Prize, The Pushcart Prize, and a Whiting Award, he has published short fiction in a variety of publications -- including Harpers, GQ, The Paris Review and Ploughshares. He has taught at the Iowa Writers Workshop, Harvard University, and Middlebury College. He lives in Vermont.