Gabriel Cohen, the Brooklyn author of Boombox and the award-winning mystery, Red Hook, has a new book just out called "Storms Can't Hurt The Sky" “about Buddhism as a path through a painful divorce.
When Cohen's marriage fell apart, he discovered
that Buddhist insights and meditation were just the thing he needed to help him deal with the anger, resentment, loss, and grief of a breakup.
So, instead of sitting down to write another novel, mystery or otherwise, Cohen decided to write this divorce memoir, which is also a guide to meditation. Cohen's book is actually the first book to focus on Buddhism and divorce. About the book, Publisher's Weekly wrote:
advice and short chapters fill his narrative of recovery, unadorned by
bullet-pointed lists, side-bars or “get-enlightened-quick scheme[s],”
which should do much to engage readers and keep them that way.
Encouraging and accessible throughout, Cohen’s book will make a useful
tool for readers going through a difficult break-up.
Cohen, who also coordinates the Sundays at Sunny’s in Red Hook reading series, also has a new crime mystery coming out. Neptune Avenue, se in the emigré community of Brighton Beach and Crown Heights, features Jack Leightner, the Brooklyn South dectective hero of Cohen's previous book, Red Hook.