Paradise Park by Allegra Goodman

Paradise Park by Allegra Goodman

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.

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 macrame 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.

Allegra Goodman's writing has been published in the New Yorker, Good Housekeeping, Slate, and the American Scholar, among other publications. She was named one of the twenty best authors under forty by the New Yorker, and she has also won a Whiting Award and the Salon magazine prize for fiction. She resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her family.

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ISBN 13	9780385334181
ISBN 10	0385334184
Title	Paradise Park
Author	Allegra Goodman
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Year published	2002-04-30
Number of pages	368
Prizes	Winner of New York Times Notable Book of the Year., Winner of Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year - Adult.
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