Michael Rockland to appear at Rutgers’ Bildner Center

March 2, 2010

Our author Michael Aaron Rockland will read and discuss his new novel STONES at the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life at Rutgers University on Thursday, March 4, 2010 at 7:30pm.

STONES is a novel about a complex Jewish-American family. Simultaneously serious and comic, STONES takes place in Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island. Its protagonist, Jack Berke, accompanies his aged mother Rachel as they visit their family graves during the Days of Awe. Jack contemplates the tombstones and 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.