What Jonah Knew

Coming 2022 from HarperCollins

"Barbara Graham is a literary alchemist. What Jonah Knew not only grabs you from the first page, it makes the mystical believable and the human predicament shine with wit, wisdom and love."

             —TARA BRACH, PH.D, author Radical Compassion

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What Jonah Knew

Coming 2022 from HarperCollins

"Barbara Graham is a literary alchemist. What Jonah Knew not only grabs you from the first page, it makes the mystical believable and the human predicament shine with wit, wisdom and love."

—TARA BRACH, PH.D, author Radical Compassion

About the Author

Barbara's first novel, What Jonah Knew , is a haunting tale of psychological suspense about a seven-year-old boy whose uncanny memories of Henry Bird, a musician who has mysteriously disappeared, defy conventional explanation and ultimately put Jonah's life in grave danger. Seen through the eyes of both Jonah's and Henry's mothers, the unfolding events radically alter their view of motherhood, as well as life--and death--because of what Jonah knows. Barbara is the New York Times bestselling author of Eye of My Heart, Camp Paradox and Women Who Run with the Poodles . Her essays have appeared widely in such places as Time, O, National Geographic Traveler and Vogue, and her plays have been produced in New York and around the country.

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Praise for Barbara's Work

“Barbara Graham is a rare talent who blends comic brilliance with psychological and spiritual insight. Her work plumbs the depths of the human heart while ingeniously tackling the hardest question: How to be wise in a crazy world?”

—Mark Matousek, bestselling author,
Sex, Death, Enlightenment

“Truth-telling with dollops of love.”

—O, The Oprah Magazine
[on Eye of My Heart] 

“Barbara Graham shares her journey from trauma to transcendence and reminds us that facing pain honestly transforms it into redemption.”

—Mary Pipher, Ph.D, #1 New York Times bestselling author,
Reviving Ophelia
[on Camp Paradox]

“Barbara Graham is the Fran Lebowitz of the New Age.”

—Dan Wakefield, bestselling author,
Going All the Way
[on Women Who Run with the Poodles]

“Barbara Graham writes with clarity, courage and heart. She shines light on complicated issues and brings the reader to a new understanding of what it means to be fully human.”

—Molly Giles, winner, Flannery O’Connor
Award for Short Fiction

“These stories are so fresh and fundamental, wrenching and joyful, that one is left feeling that the subject has never been cracked open before.”

—Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., author,
The Dance of Anger
[on Eye of My Heart]

 

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