Can you believe
what they said?
“A tender, clever, and engrossing remembrance.”
Media Appearances & Reviews
Meaghan Rady
Emmy Award winning Producer/showrunner, Brené Brown: Atlas of the Heart
“Wonderful, entertaining, and highly readable -- but equally impressive because it manages to encompass and make some sense of so many common and complex feelings about my own family, all of our families -- of the best way(s) to live, to die, to belong, to commune, to mourn and to celebrate. It's a mixed up file of the author, but also of all of us -- and I really loved it.”
Jane Bernstein
Award-winning author of The Face Tells the Secret.
“Herschel Wohl was a spectacularly difficult father – a pedantic, dreamy, feckless smoker of all that was smokeable. One could say it was totally in character that while Herschel, or “Dr. Joe,” shunned all religion, before dying on a tiny, hard-to-reach Caribbean Island, his last wish was for a traditional Jewish burial. Part adventure story, and part a reckoning, In Herschel’s Wake is engaging, poignant, and a thoroughly enjoyable read.”
Hannah Sholl
Senior Counsel, VISA
“It was incredible. I truly loved it. I was captivated by the story and moved to tears for the last 20 pages. Had I not been reading on my phone I would have underlined a bunch of sentences that were so poetic and conveyed a thought or feeling so precisely in a way I had never heard before.”
Mark Pesavento
Executive Editor, Sports Illustrated
“The book is beautiful. It’s hilarious in parts, like a "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" set in the Caribbean. But I also thought about “A Farewell to Arms,” where Hemingway’s AWOL protagonist tries to construct a healthier existence for himself away from the brutality of war. Cheers for writing something so entertaining, so personal, and in the end so lovely.”
Steve Horelick
Publisher/Executive VP NonLinear Educating, Inc.
“It’s a wonderful novel. I am a nighttime reader and I found myself contemplating the book a lot during the daytime, wondering what was going to go down next, and looking forward to my nighttime appointment join you and your siblings in this most outrageous and cathartic adventure. As with all good books –as the last few pages glided on their way to a soft landing– I was so disappointed that the story, the journey was concluding. Really great writing!”
David A. Rosenbaum, PhD
Distinguished Prof. of Psychology, Author, It’s a Jungle In There
Full of deep psychological insights, this memoir describes a decades-long series of unique, unforgettable events. The wonderful writing takes the reader to new places, both literally and figuratively.