Stones [Paperback]

Michael Aaron Rockland (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2009

STONES is a novel simultaneously serious and comic. It takes place in one day as its protagonist, Jack Berke, accompanies his aged mother Rachel to visit the family graves  in Brooklyn, Queens, and further out on Long Island. As Jack negotiates the congested expressways  from cemetery to cemetery, he contemplates the tombstones, the lives of family members who lie under them, the stones that, according to Jewish custom, he places on those tombstones, and the stone that has for a lifetime resided in his own heart.

Editorial Reviews

Review

STONES is a sneaky and beautiful little masterpiece--sneaky because its disarmingly simple premise of a single day spent visiting graves manages somehow to communicate the endless complexity of one Jewish-American family over the span of nearly a century, and beautiful because Michael Rockland tells his story with a generous, generous heart.

--Tom De Haven, author of It s Superman!

About the Author

Michael Aaron Rockland is the author of twelve books, but he is relatively new to fiction. However, his first novel, A Bliss Case was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Two of his earlier books also received considerable recognition. His first book, Sarmiento s Travels in the United States in 1847, was chosen by The Washington Post as one of the Fifty Best Books of the Year. Looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike, a book he co-wrote, was selected by the New Jersey State Library and New Jersey Monthly magazine as one of the Ten Best Books Ever Written About New Jersey.

Product Details

• Paperback: 140 pages
• Publisher: Hansen Publishing Group; First edition (October 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1601823002
• ISBN-13: 978-1601823007
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,705,943 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)