The Book of Jonah

A Novel

By: Joshua Max Feldman

Narrated by: David Pittu

A major literary debut, an epic tale of love, failure, and unexpected faith set in New York, Amsterdam, and Las Vegas

The modern-day Jonah at the center of Joshua Max Feldman's brilliantly conceived retelling of the Book of Jonah is a young Manhattan lawyer named Jonah Jacobstein. He's a lucky man: healthy and handsome, with two beautiful women ready to spend the rest of their lives with him and an enormously successful career that gets more promising by the minute. He's celebrating a deal that will surely make him partner when a bizarre, unexpected biblical vision at a party changes everything. Hard as he tries to forget what he saw, this disturbing sign is only the first of many Jonah will witness, and before long his life is unrecognizable. Though this perhaps divine intervention will be responsible for more than one irreversible loss in Jonah's life, it will also cross his path with that of Judith Bulbrook, an intense, breathtakingly intelligent woman who's no stranger to loss herself. As this funny and bold novel moves to Amsterdam and then Las Vegas, Feldman examines the way we live now while asking an age-old question: How do you know if you're chosen?

What a horrible book

All I can say is this book must have a great title because that's all there is to it.
It is one of the worst messes I have ever stumbled through and made myself to finish.
The narrator is absolutely fantastic.

Not about Religion

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

I was really disappointed in this book. It isn't that the story lacked, it was just not what I expected at all. I thought this book was about Faith and Religion. In a very far, round about way, I guess you could say it was, but I didn't think so.

What about David Pittu’s performance did you like?

I thought David Pittu's performance was grand.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Sadness and very much disappointment.

wish i'd LEFT this BEHIND

Did anyone else get the notice that this was one of Amazon's Best Books of February; the monthly e-mail from Audible stating that this was one of the new releases they were most excited about? I am flummoxed, seriously baffled. I would have just requested a refund, but I kept listening, trying to assure myself that I wasn't crazy. I'm still concerned about that status.

Let me just warn those of you that like an occasional cataclysmic thriller with a biblical twist, 'Flee for your lives! Don't look back...' There is no flood, no water, no Armeggedon, and no freakin' whale. I would continue with: no plot, horrible writing; but, the fact that Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, even Amazon/Audible found this praiseworthy...I must have lost my mind. If this really is good, I'm going out to look for four guys on different colored horses, 'human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together...mass hysteria!'