The Washington Post, June 16th, 1991
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS By Anne Roiphe Summit. 473 pp. $22.95 JERUSALEM, 1990: Hedy Gruenbaum Aloni paces the halls of Hadassah Hospital. On an operating table beyond her reach is her daughter Namah, shot in the head during a conflict between Jewish zealots and Arabs. Hedy, the scion of a wealthy, assimilated Jewish-American family, has chosen to live in Israel. Two thousand years of Jewish history, a hundred years of assimilation, a lifetime of yearning for her own distant, preoccupied mother, and 20 years of motherhood have brought Hedy to this crisis at the heart of Anne Roiphe's new novel...
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