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ZIN Product Number: 10091333
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Dell Publishing Company, Incorporated
ISBN: 0385334184
Release Date: Jan 9, 1999
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 1 review.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
Allegra Goodman has delighted readers with her critically acclaimed collections Total Immersion and The Family Markowitz, and her celebrated first novel, Kaaterskill Falls, which was a national bestseller and a National Book Award finalist. Now, in her much-anticipated new novel, Goodman introduces one of the most endearing, exasperating, indomitable heroines in modern literature: Sharon Spiegelman.
Abandoned by her folk-dancing partner, Gary, in a Honolulu hotel room, Sharon realizes she could return to Boston—and her estranged family—or listen to that little voice inside herself. The voice that asks: “How come Gary got to pursue his causes, while all I got to pursue was him?” Thus, with an open heart, a soul on fire, and her meager possessions (a guitar, two Indian gauze skirts, a macramé bikini, and her grandfather’s silver watch) Sharon begins her own spiritual quest. Ever the optimist, she is sure at each stage that she has struck it rich “spiritually speaking”—until she comes up empty. Then, in a karmic convergence of events, Sharon starts on the path home to Judaism. Still, even as she embraces her tradition, Sharon’s irrepressible self tugs at her sleeve. Especially when she meets Mikhail, falls truly in love at last, and discovers what even she could not imagine—her destiny.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 1 Average Rating:
laughed out loud
-- A reviewer, July 2, 2001
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
The slightly flaky protagonist of Allegra Goodman's second novel searches for spiritual enlightenment in all the wrong places. 'The resulting picaresque, unsubtle and overlong but not without a certain inner propulsion, feels like a book that Goodman (herself an observant Jew who lives in Cambridge) needed to write'—The New Yorker|
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Fiction, Fiction - General, Reading Group Guide, Literary, Hawaii, Young women, Jewish women, New age movement
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