This is one of the most powerful books on pain and suffering ever written. Rabbi Kushner, faced with the harshest of realities, being the parent of a child with a fatal illness, chose to ask and then attempt to answer the very hard question: If there is a God and he/she loves us, then why is there suffering and pain? Kushner answers this question with the sensitivity of a man who knows great loss, the intelligence of a theologian, and the words of a poet.