The Double Life of Alfred Buber - Tapa dura

A memoir about an illicit love affair that the reader comes to realize is different than the author confesses. Alfred Buber is a pillar of his community, a respected man with a secret, and a secret life, until one day the two cross over and even he can no longer tell which is real and which is not. Buber's passion for women is matched only by his inability to relate to them, and after years of bruising attempts to find love he seeks his escape in an illegitimate all encompassing romance with a Bangkok bargirl.

Joanna Higgins lives with her husband and two children in upstate New york and northeastern Pennsylvania. She has taught literature and writing at colleges and universities in Michigan, England, Pennsylvania, New York, and Hawaii.Her fiction and plays have received recognition and awards, including a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship. Of her first novel, A Soldier's Book, Kirkus said, "An impressive debut, complex and penetrating, a moving first novel and a notable contribution.