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Morningside heights henkin5/8/2023 ![]() A computer genius, he sets out to do the one thing his father has no interest in: make money. Raised by his mother, a free spirit who drags him from one makeshift home to another all over the country (because, she tells Arlo, she wants to poop in all 50 states), Arlo is deeply angry with his father. Arlo is Spence’s son from a previous marriage. What happens when her husband begins to unravel, physically and mentally? Pru’s success is bound up in her husband’s, as is her identity. ![]() ![]() An Ohio native, she makes her way to Columbia with the aim of becoming an Elizabethan scholar, only to fall in love with and marry her professor-the great Spence Robin himself-and drop out of graduate school to raise their child. If Spence is the central force pulling everyone toward him, it is his wife, Pru, who is the family’s beating heart. In a tale that gives us front row seats to a family drama filled with compelling characters, we are introduced to a cast made up of Spence’s inner circle. ![]() Then early-onset Alzheimer’s strips him of it all in his late 50s. A Shakespearean scholar, he became the youngest tenured member of the English department, made the best-seller list at 30 and landed a MacArthur Foundation genius grant at 35. ![]() Spence Robin, the character at the center of Joshua Henkin’s latest novel, was Columbia University’s golden boy. Morningside Heights: A Novel By Joshua Henkin (Pantheon Books) ![]()
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