Forest Dark -- Nicole Krauss

<p><strong>National Bestseller </strong>- <strong><em>A New York Times</em> Notable Book</strong></p><p><strong>Named Best Book of the Year by<em> Esquire, Times Literary Supplement, Elle Magazine, LitHub, Publishers Weekly, Financial Times, Guardian, Refinery29, PopSugar, </em>and<em> Globe and Mail</em></strong></p><p><strong>"A brilliant novel. I am full of admiration." --Philip Roth</strong></p><p>"One of America's most important novelists" (<em>New York Times</em>), the award-winning, <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>The History of Love</em>, conjures an achingly beautiful and breathtakingly original novel about personal transformation that interweaves the stories of two disparate individuals--an older lawyer and a young novelist--whose transcendental search leads them to the same Israeli desert.</p><p>Jules Epstein, a man whose drive, avidity, and outsized personality have, for sixty-eight years, been a force to be reckoned with, is undergoing a metamorphosis. In the wake of his parents' deaths, his divorce from his wife of more than thirty years, and his retirement from the New York legal firm where he was a partner, he's felt an irresistible need to give away his possessions, alarming his children and perplexing the executor of his estate. With the last of his wealth, he travels to Israel, with a nebulous plan to do something to honor his parents. In Tel Aviv, he is sidetracked by a charismatic American rabbi planning a reunion for the descendants of