When Bad Things Happen to Good People

ISBN-13:	9781400034727
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/24/2004
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	39,164
Product dimensions:	4.66(w) x 11.32(h) x 0.36(d)

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The inspirational classic from a renowned spiritual leader that "offers a moving and humane approach to understanding life’s windstorms” (Elisabeth Kübler-Ross). When Harold Kushner’s three-year-old son was diagnosed with a degenerative disease that meant the boy would only live until his early teens, he was faced with one of life’s most difficult questions: Why, God? Years later, Rabbi Kushner wrote this straightforward, elegant contemplation of the doubts and fears that arise when tragedy strikes. In these pages, Kushner shares his wisdom as a rabbi, a parent, a reader, and a human being. Often imitated but never superseded, When Bad Things Happen to Good People is a classic that offers clear thinking and consolation in times of sorrow.