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AARP Home » Entertainment » Books »The Book of Calamities...

The Book of Calamities: Five Questions about Suffering and its Meaning

Read this Web-Exclusive Book Review by Janet Kinosian.

by: Janet Kinosian, from: AARP The Magazine, September, 2008

Job had it right all those years ago when he queried God about his tribulations: “Why me?” Well, if he didn’t actually ask that question straight-up, that’s what the pages of anguished prose in the Book of Job meant, and it’s this age-old scurry to find meaning for calamity and suffering that’s at the heart of author Peter Trachtenberg’s lithe prose in The Book of Calamities. … Back to Article

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