Paradise Park: A Novel

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After being abandoned by her boyfriend in Honolulu, Sharon Spiegelman embarks on a spiritual quest for enlightenment, a journey that takes her from the Greater Love Salvation Church and the Consciousness Meditation Center back to Judaism and to true love.

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Clear, rain-washed prose ...In Allegra Goodman's ebullient, bittersweet, plaintive Song of Sharon, the heroines true achievement is finding poetry in.becoming who shes been all along.
The New York Times Book Review

[The] narrator, that Sharon Spiegelman, has one of the most enchanting, idiosyncratic voices since Augie March.
The Washington Post Book World

With Sharon Spiegelman, Goodman has created a Huck Finn for the modern age, drifting down the river of American spirituality.
The Christian Science Monitor

Like Saul Bellow and Philip Roth before her, Goodman has achieved a breakthrough book.
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Allegra Goodman's novels includeThe Chalk Artist,Intuition, The Cookbook Collector, Paradise Park,andKaaterskill Falls(a National Book Award finalist).Her fiction has appeared inThe New Yorker, Commentary, andPloughsharesand has been anthologized inThe O. Henry AwardsandBest American Short Stories.She has written two collections of short stories,The Family MarkowitzandTotal Immersionand a novel for younger readers,The Other Side of the Island.Her essays and reviews have appeared inThe New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The Boston Globe,The Jewish Review of Books, andThe American Scholar.Raised in Honolulu, Goodman studied English and philosophy at Harvard and received a PhD in English literature from Stanford. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award, the Salon Award for Fiction, and a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced study. She lives with her family in Cambridge,Massachusetts, where she is writing a new novel.