{"id":2,"date":"2014-07-29T17:36:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T17:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/hemchandgossai\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2014-07-29T17:42:18","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T17:42:18","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/hemchandgossai\/","title":{"rendered":"A Requiem for Neil by Hemchand Gossai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/hemchandgossai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/486\/2014\/07\/978-1-60860-025-0-HGossaiCover.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7\" src=\"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/hemchandgossai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/486\/2014\/07\/978-1-60860-025-0-HGossaiCover.jpg\" alt=\"978-1-60860-025-0-HGossaiCover\" width=\"384\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/hemchandgossai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/486\/2014\/07\/978-1-60860-025-0-HGossaiCover.jpg 576w, https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/hemchandgossai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/486\/2014\/07\/978-1-60860-025-0-HGossaiCover-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a>About the Book<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hemchand Gossai\u2019s <em>A Requiem for Neil<\/em> is the poignant true story of his brother, Neil\u2014a man who died young and will be forever remembered as such.<\/p>\n<p>Neil Gossai was born mentally challenged. Growing up in Guyana, Neil never learned to speak and was never taught how to experience and enter the social world. Although Neil grew to be a physically strong young man, Gossai never really knew his brother. They never played together, shared secrets and never expressed affection for one another.<\/p>\n<p>Gossai\u2019s beautiful narration is one of faint stirrings of memories\u2014a brother that some considered a \u201cmadman.\u201d Gossai\u2019s riveting account is one that most of us have never experienced\u2014to have a family member that no one can quite remember\u2014his life or his death\u2014no records and no photographs exist.<\/p>\n<p>Does a madman need affection? Would it have made a difference if Neil had? What about Neil\u2019s voice\u2014doesn\u2019t he deserve one\u2014to know that he too once lived?<\/p>\n<p>Gossai\u2019s novel is peppered with nostalgic regrets and a beautifully bittersweet acceptance of a brother who lived and died in the shadows\u2014it is Neil\u2019s story and his voice. This passionate and wonderful story will find a place in your heart and in your soul.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/hemchandgossai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/486\/2014\/07\/Hemchand-Gossai.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6\" src=\"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/hemchandgossai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/486\/2014\/07\/Hemchand-Gossai.jpg\" alt=\"Hemchand Gossai\" width=\"192\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a>Dr. Hemchand Gossai<\/strong> is a writer and university professor. He has written several scholarly books and articles and a nonfiction memoir, <em>River Crossings<\/em> that inspired this tribute to his brother, Neil.<\/p>\n<p>His most recent book, <em>The Hebrew Prophets After the Shoah<\/em> has received wide acclaim for its currency and striking clarity in challenging conventions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Book Hemchand Gossai\u2019s A Requiem for Neil is the poignant true story of his brother, Neil\u2014a man who died young and will be forever remembered as such. Neil Gossai was born mentally challenged. Growing up in Guyana, Neil never learned to speak and was never taught how to experience and enter the social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":483,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/hemchandgossai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/hemchandgossai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/hemchandgossai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/hemchandgossai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/483"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/hemchandgossai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/hemchandgossai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/hemchandgossai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/hemchandgossai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}