"Morningside Heights is a lovely novel, and a moving meditation on how the act of loving a specific person changes us. It’s about the love between women and men, and children and parents about the things we give up in the face of adversity and about how to survive when life turns out differently from what we thought we signed up for. Morningside Heights is a sweeping and compassionate novel about a marriage surviving hardship. Arlo, a wealthy entrepreneur who invests in biotech, may be his father’s last, best hope. Meanwhile, Spence’s estranged son from his first marriage has come back into their lives. One day, feeling especially isolated, Pru meets a man, and the possibility of new romance blooms. With their daughter, Sarah, away at medical school, Pru must struggle on her own to care for him.
The Great Man can’t concentrate he falls asleep reading The New York Review of Books. Thirty years later, something is wrong with Spence. 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. When Ohio-born Pru Steiner arrives in New York in 1976, she follows in a long tradition of young people determined to take the city by storm.
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