Light Fell

Winner of the Stonewall Book Award for Fiction
Winner of the Publishing Triangle's Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction


Twenty years have passed since literature professor Joseph Licht left behind his entire life—his wife, Rebecca; his five sons; his father; and the religious Israeli farming community where he grew up—when he fell in love with a man, the brilliant and charismatic rabbi Yoel Rosenzweig. Their affair is long over, but its echoes continue to reverberate through the lives of Jose...