Book review: The Book of Jonah

Title: The Book of Jonah
Author: Joshua Max Feldman
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Summary:  Jonah's a lawyer at a Manhattan white shoe firm on the partner track.  He has a girlfriend that he's pretty sure he's going to end up marrying one day. In the meantime he's also still seeing another girl on the side.  He's on top of the world.  Then Jonah goes to a party one night and has a disturbing vision.  These visions continue and end up turning his life as he knew it upside down.  He crosses paths with Judith Bulbrook, an intense woman with struggles of her own

Review: I loved the first part of this book and the end.  The main reason I didn't give it five stars is there was a small part of the middle that seemed a little vague and meandering.  Perhaps that was the point but it didn't really resonate with me.  This book was different from anything I've read in a long time.  Jonah's self-destruction is fascinating and Judith is an interesting character in her own right as well.  Judith is set to conquer the world when tragedy changes her world forever.  I love living vicariously through characters whose life takes a path that I didn't get a chance to explore.