Paradise Park: A Novel - Softcover

"Clear, rain-washed prose ...In Allegra Goodman's ebullient, bittersweet, plaintive Song of Sharon, the heroine's true achievement is finding poetry in.becoming who she's 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."
--Time

After being abandoned by her boyfriend in Honolulu, the indomitable, irrepressible Sharon Spiegelman embarks on a spiritual quest in search of enlightenment, a journey that takes her from the Greater Love Salvation Church and the Consciousness Meditation Center back to Judaism and to true love. By the author of Kaaterskill Falls. Reissue.