He starts suffering from Alzheimer, slowly turning into a stranger. He is also clever boy but he suffers from dyslexia which gives him more anxiety!Īnd Spense is not the brilliant minded man Pru has married. Arlo is not a bad kid but he made so many wrong choices because of his mother and it seems like her thoughts still affected him in negative way. Now they have a daughter named Sarah and they let Arlo : Spense’s son from first marriage live with them even though this choice put them into complex situations. She also gives up her academic career because financially Spence’s book sales help them to buy a beautiful house and start a new family together. They fall for each other and as he asks her to marry with him, she doesn’t think twice even though his ex and his son are still in the picture. Pru is astonishing student with a brilliant career opportunities ahead of her and Spense is only 6 years older than her but he’s already her professor, published his successful book, became guest on a show at PBS, the golden child and rising star of Columbia University. It starts with Pru and Spence’s meeting and blooming love story at the university. Such a great novel: Easy to read, easy to connect with the characters and understand things from their POVs. Poignant, well analyzed, realistically written bittersweet story with its well developed, layered middle class New Yorker characters. It's about the love between women and men, and children and parents about the things we give up in the face of adversity and about how to survive when life turns out differently from what we thought we signed up for. Morningside Heights is a sweeping and compassionate novel about a marriage surviving hardship. Arlo, a wealthy entrepreneur who invests in biotech, may be his father's last, best hope. Meanwhile, Spence's estranged son from his first marriage has come back into their lives. One day, feeling especially isolated, Pru meets a man, and the possibility of new romance blooms. With their daughter, Sarah, away at medical school, Pru must struggle on her own to care for him. The Great Man can't concentrate he falls asleep reading The New York Review of Books. Thirty years later, something is wrong with Spence. But when she falls in love with and marries Spence Robin, her hotshot young Shakespeare professor, her life takes a turn she couldn't have anticipated.
When Ohio-born Pru Steiner arrives in New York in 1976, she follows in a long tradition of young people determined to take the city by storm.
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