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The award-winning, New York Times best-selling writer of The Record of Love conjures an achingly beautiful and breathtakingly original novel about personal transformation that interweaves the reports of two disparate individuals - an older lawyer and a young novelist - whose transcendental search leads them to the same Israeli desert. Jules Epstein, a man whose drive, avidity, and outsize personality have, for 68 years, been a pressure to be reckoned with, is considering a metamorphosis. Inside the wake of his parents' fatalities, his divorce from his partner greater than 30 years, and his retirement from the New York legal company where he was somebody, he's thought an amazing need to give away his property, alarming his children and perplexing the executor of his estate. With the previous of his riches, he trips to Israel with a nebulous plan to take action to honor his parents. In Tel Aviv, he's sidetracked by the charismatic American rabbi planning a reunion for the descendants of King David who insists that Epstein is part of that storied dynastic lines. He also fulfills the rabbi's beautiful little princess, who convinces Epstein to be involved in her own project - a film about the life of David being shot in the desert - with life-changing implications. But Epstein isn't really the only seeker getting into a metaphysical quest that dissolves his sense of personal, place, and history. Going out of her family in Brooklyn, a young, well-known novelist finds the Tel Aviv Hilton, where she has stayed yearly since birth. Troubled by writer's block and a faltering marriage, she expects that the hotel can uncover a dimension of fact - and her own understanding of life - that has been sealed off to her. But when she fulfills a retired books professor who proposes a project she can't turn down, she's attracted into a unknown that alters her life in ways she could do not have imagined. Bursting with life and laughter, Forest Dark is a serious, mesmerizing novel of metamorphosis and self-realization - of looking beyond all of that is obvious toward the infinite.
