Against the Dying of the Light: A Fathers Journey Through Loss

The sudden death of a child. A personal tragedy beyond description. The permanent presence of an absence. What can come from it? Raw wisdom and defiant hope. Leonard Fein probes life’s painful injustices in this remarkable personal story. He exposes emotional truths that are revealed when we’re forced to confront one of the toughest questions there is. How can we pick up the pieces of our lives and go on to laugh and to love in the aftermath of grievous loss? Ruthlessly honest lyrical and wise AGAINST THE DYING OF THE LIGHT takes the experience of loss beyond the confines of the personal illuminating the universal meaning and the hope that can be found in the details of grief. Leonard Fein is a passionate and gifted writer teacher and veteran social activist. He is author of Where Are We? The Inner Life of America’s Jews a Book-of-the-Month Club selection and Israel: Politics and People. He served as director of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism and is the founder of Moment magazine Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger and the National Jewish Coalition for Literacy.