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Marvin Olasky played catch with his father, Eli, only once--it didn't end well. Eli never laughed, rarely spoke with his son, and was periodically lambasted by his wife for his lack of ambition. How had a Harvard graduate failed to achieve all that he had once hoped for? Author Frederick Buechner confessed, "I dealt with the sad parts of my life by forgetting them." Seeing a danger in this, Olasky draws on his investigative journalist skills to uncover his father's past--facing Eli's pain and his own in order to understand and forgive. He follows Eli's story from his Orthodox Jewish childhood in Boston to his days as a commuter student at Harvard to his untold experiences in Germany following World War II to his embrace of Reconstructionist Judaism, describing a "spiritual and psychological death by one thousand cuts"--and discovering what he owes to his parents.
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Olasky, Marvin
- ISBN: 9781629958668
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 8.40 x 0.50
- Number Of Pages: 120
- Publication Year: 2021
Language:
English