Against the Dying of the Light: A Parent's Story of Love, Loss and Hope
How a father's struggle to understand his daughter’s sudden death becomes an inspiring exploration of life.
The sudden death of a child. A personal tragedy beyond description. The permanent presence of an absence. What can come from it? Raw wisdom and defiant hope.
Leonard Fein probes life’s painful injustices in this remarkable personal story. He exposes emotional truths that are revealed when we’re forced to confront one of the toughest questions there is: How can we pick up the pieces of our lives and go on to laugh and to love in the aftermath of grievous loss?
Ruthlessly honest, lyrical and wise, Against the Dying of the Light takes the experience of loss beyond the confines of the personal, illuminating the universal meaning and the hope that can be found in the details of grief.
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Book details
- Author
- Leonard Fein
- Imprint
- Jewish Lights, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Hardcover, Paperback
- Subjects
- Self-Help › Death, Grief, Bereavement
Religion › Judaism - Topics
- grief and loss · death of a child · parental grief · coping with loss · hope and healing · Jewish perspectives · memoir
- ISBN-13
- 9781580231107 (Hardcover)
About the author
LEONARD J. FEIN was a professor, writer, and social activist whose work centered on Jewish social themes. His books include Where Are We? The Inner Life of America’s Jews and Israel: Politics and People.
Fein held a Ph.D. in political science from Michigan State University and served as Professor of Politics and Social Policy and the Klutznick Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies at Brandeis University. He also taught political science at MIT and was deputy director of the MIT/Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies.
When not writing, Fein co-founded Moment magazine with Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel in 1975, serving as editor-in-chief for twelve years, and founded both MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger in 1985 and the National Jewish Coalition for Literacy. Much of his work reflected his decades of engagement with Jewish communal life and social causes.