Jerry Wald received his undergraduate degree in accounting from the University of Illinois. He is also a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School. He practiced law for 34 years specializing in employee benefits.
Jerry lives in the greater Boston region with his wife, Dena, and Goldendoodle, Maui. But he has retained his Midwest roots as a die-hard Chicago Bulls and Bears fan and hopes that, someday soon, fate will finally smile upon these teams – if fate exists.
Jerry is a new grandfather and author. He recently wrote a children’s book for his amazing grandson, Xander.
The Overexamined Life of Jacob Hart: a novel
Jacob Hart has always been convinced there is an answer to any problem. That belief propelled him to a successful engineering career at corporate giant, GoldOrb Diversified. But following an abrupt retirement and his wife's untimely death, Jacob suffers an existential crisis. The man who once believed that anything could be solved becomes all consumed with uncovering the role of a higher power in his seemingly crumbling world. Plagued with prophetic visions, he travels to Lake Paradise in pursuit of his coveted answer to life's mysteries.
Joined in his quest by a kind Rabbi who has lost his faith, an unruly Ivy League professor, and the powerful CEO of GoldOrb, Jacob enters into a philosophical pursuit for the ages. But the troubles of the real world follow the friends to paradise, and soon they are ensnared in a high stakes political scandal that threatens to destroy everything.
The Overexamined Life of Jacob Hart tests the bonds of friendship, family, and country and infuses existential questions from time immemorial with modernity, intrigue, and sheer excitement.
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