Susan Josephs

1 month ago | hadassahmagazine.org | Sandee Brawarsky |Binnie Kirshenbaum |Susan Josephs |Lucy Adlington |Kelsey Osgood

Email Print Counting BackwardsBy Binnie Kirshenbaum (Soho Press)This novel, author Binnie Kirshenbaum’s eighth, focuses closely on a loving, happily married couple—he is a scientist; she is an artist—as the husband’s health plunges because of early-onset Lewy body dementia. With dark humor and much insight into love and grief, Kirshenbaum details the couple’s unraveling lives as they shift from sharing dreams to an unexpected place of despair.