Description In this richly textured novel that spans two continents and vastly different worlds, Daniel Jacobs eloquently shows how love orders all things.
Sally Brady, Author of A Box of Darkness.
Dan Jacobs unspools an insightful and riveting story.
Then Hannah, our sharp-eyed, vulnerable narrator is stricken with life-threatening illness and everything changes radically.
When seven middle-aged friends leave their complex lives to trek the Himalayas, the physical demands and proximity to one another begin to fray everyone\'s nerves. -Richard Almond, Psychoanalyst, co-author of The Therapeutic Narrative: Fictional Relationships and the Process of Psychological Change In this perceptive novel, the Distance from Home is greater than the miles between Manhattan and Kathmandu.
Jacobs combines a skillful capacity for observing and rendering relationships with a psychoanalytic awareness of the inevitable impediments and challenges to reaching "home" - the security of self-knowledge and relatedness.
Dan Jacobs has given us a modern version of Homer\'s Odyssey, with a female protagonist whose restless travels reflect an early traumatic loss.
Mitchell Author of Americans in Space and Starting Out Sideways, PEN Discovery Award Winner for Fiction I couldn\'t put down The Distance from Home . - Mary E.
Weaving together friendship, art, politics and the need for love in our lives, The Distance from Home is a deeply intelligent and impressive exploration of the human heart.
Their unforgettable journey is gripping, hopeful and heartbreaking.
In The Distance from Home, a group of friends searches the mountaintops of Nepal for the happiness that eludes them at home.
Description In this richly textured novel that spans two continents and vastly different worlds, Daniel Jacobs eloquently shows how love orders all things
