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Lament for a Father
The Journey to Understanding and Forgiveness
Author: Marvin Olasky
Narrator: Tom Parks
Unabridged: 3 hr 39 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: christianaudio.com
Published: 08/30/2022
Synopsis
Marvin played catch with his father, Eli, only once-it didn't end well. Eli never laughed, rarely spoke with his son, and was periodically lambasted by his wife for his lack of ambition. How had a Harvard graduate failed to achieve all that he had once hoped for? Now an experienced investigative journalist, Marvin Olasky uncovers the true story of his father's past in his most personal work to date-facing Eli's pain and his own in order to understand and forgive. He follows Eli from his Orthodox Jewish childhood in Boston to his days as a commuter student at Harvard to his traumatic experiences in Germany following World War II to his embrace of Reconstructionist Judaism, describing a 'spiritual and psychological death by one thousand cuts'-and discovering what he owes to his parents.