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"Visiting Hours," a novel-in-stories, explores the lives of people
not normally met on the page---AIDS patients and those who care for
them. Set in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and written with large and
frequent dollops of humor, the book is a profound meditation on
faith and love in the face of illness and poverty.
Jennifer Anne Moses left behind a comfortable life in the upper
echelons of East Coast Jewish society to move with her husband and
children to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Searching for connection to her
surroundings, she decided to volunteer at an AIDS hospice. But as
she encountered a culture populated by French Catholics and
Evangelical Christians, African Americans and Cajuns, altruistic
nurses and nuns, ex-cons, street-walkers, impoverished AIDS
patients, and healers of all stripes, she found she had embarked on
an unexpected journey of profound self-discovery. In a keenly
observed memoir that embraces both pathos and humor, Moses takes us
into a world that is strange and sad but also suffused with the
holy. As witness to dire poverty and extreme adversity, Moses
discovers a deeper commitment to her own faith - a Judaism that
asks not for blind belief, but rather daily commitment. She
recounts the challenges of taking on a life committed to God in a
postmodern world that has little use for the divine. Telling her
story of redemption with an honesty that goes right for the guts,
she leaves the reader with new hope.
Eighteen-year-old Joshua Cushing wakes up in a psych ward, not
knowing how he got there. Worse, he has only one eye. And no one in
his family will tell him what happened to his girlfriend, Sophie.
The one thing he knows for sure is that something happened, leaving
him with a self and a life he barely recognizes. Once a popular
long-distance runner, Josh is now flabby, frustrated, and furious
about returning to his New Jersey high scho ol to repeat his senior
year. Forced to attend meetings with other ""underage weirdos,"" he
sinks into his loneliness. But when Josh meets Elizabeth Rinaldi,
things begin to change. The only other new student in his class,
she has a scar on her forehead, a Southern accent, and an attitude.
Sharing a status as outcasts and an aptitude for snark, Josh and
Elizabeth help each other escape their pasts. The Book of Joshua
weaves an unforgettable story from family secrets, friendship,
faith, love, and redemption. It brings readers deeply into the
lives of those who suffer from mental illness, as well as the
friends and family affected by it.
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