Michael Aaron Rockland
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Michael Aaron Rockland is author of Stones forthcoming from Hansen Publishing Group in October 2009. Stones is the first novel to be published in the Hansen Fiction Series.
Michael Aaron Rockland is the author of twelve books, but he is relatively new to fiction. However, his first novel, A Bliss Case was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Two of his earlier books also received considerable recognition. His first book, Sarmiento’s Travels in the United States in 1847, was chosen by The Washington Post as one of the Fifty Best Books of the Year. Looking for America on the New Jersey Turnpike, a book he co-wrote, was selected by the New Jersey State Library and New Jersey Monthly magazine as one of the Ten Best Books Ever Written About New Jersey.
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Stones
by Michael Aaron Rockland
ISBN 978-1-60182-300-7
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STONES is a novel simultaneously serious and comic. It takes place in one day as its protagonist, Jack Berke, accompanies his aged mother Rachel to visit the family graves in Brooklyn, Queens, and further out on Long Island. As Jack negotiates the congested expressways from cemetery to cemetery, he contemplates the tombstones, the lives of family members who lie under them, the stones that, according to Jewish custom, he places on those tombstones, and the stone that has for a lifetime resided in his own heart.
