Lament For a Father: The Journey to Understanding and Forgiveness
Marvin OlaskyPaperback 2021-05-07
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:Marvin Olasky 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? Author Frederick Buechner confessed, "I dealt with the sad parts of my life by forgetting them." Seeing a danger in this, Olasky draws on his investigative journalist skills to uncover his father's past-facing Eli's pain and his own in order to understand and forgive. He follows Eli's story from his Orthodox Jewish childhood in Boston to his days as a commuter student at Harvard to his untold 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.
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Publisher Description
:Marvin Olasky 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? Author Frederick Buechner confessed, "I dealt with the sad parts of my life by forgetting them." Seeing a danger in this, Olasky draws on his investigative journalist skills to uncover his father's past-facing Eli's pain and his own in order to understand and forgive. He follows Eli's story from his Orthodox Jewish childhood in Boston to his days as a commuter student at Harvard to his untold 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.
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