Oh, Henry

"He's lucky to be a boy," Henry's mother says of her small, homely son.

"Why am I lucky to be a boy?" he asks.

"Because girls need to be pretty. With boys, charm is what counts," his mother explains.

Henry never really stops being a boy, a romantic, idealistic boy, and a bundle of sensitivities and insensitivities.

Starting out as a young Jewish barrister in South Africa, Henry then moves to Israel with his wife Jennie. But he continues to be haunted by Penelope, the free-spirited Catholic...