In the early years of their marriage, Pru feels that “Spence’s success was her success, too. His dementia appears slowly with his inability to work on, let alone finish, a book he has contracted to write and continues quickly to the point where Pru has to hire a caregiver to help out while she is at work as a development officer at Barnard. He stumbles, in language, in memory, and, eventually, in movement. After a Guggenheim and a Mellon, he wins a MacArthur, but at the age of fifty-seven, things begin to go awry. Crisply and at breakneck speed in a brief first section, we learn that Pru Steiner has always had a weakness for older men, so it’s no surprise when she falls for Spence Robin, her charismatic but only slightly older Shakespeare professor at Columbia.Īfter that the novel takes on more texture and depth as it develops the story of a marriage and an oddly blended family.
304 pages.ĪT FIRST IT APPEARS that Morningside Heights is yet another campus tale of the professor-meets-grad-student variety, but Joshua Henkin’s new novel quickly sidesteps formula.
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