Please welcome this week’s sponsor, Joshua Henkin, author of Swimming Across the Hudson (a Los Angeles Times Notable Book), Matrimony (a New York Times Notable Book), and the new novel The World Without You:

“Like a more bittersweet version of Jonathan Tropper’s This Is Where I Leave You or a less chilly variation on Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections, Henkin tenderly explores family dynamics in this novel about the ties that bind, and even lacerate … The author has created an empathetic cast of characters that the reader will love spending time with, even as they behave like fools and hurt one another. An intelligently written novel that works as a summer read and for any other time of the year.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Witty, poignant, and heartfelt. The 4th of July will never be the same for me, nor for my fellow Americans. I can’t imagine a world without Joshua Henkin.” — Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story

Find out more about this powerful new novel here.