cover image The Mind-Body Problem

The Mind-Body Problem

Rebecca Goldstein. Penguin Books, $15 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-14-017245-4

Goldstein's The Dark Sister is a cleverly constructed, imaginative tale that centers on a tormented feminist novelist whose solitude is interrupted only by phone calls from her silly but dangerous sister; March will also bring Penguin's reissue of Goldstein's penetrating coming-of-age novel The Mind-Body Problem , about an orthodox Jewish woman's sexual awakening at college. (Mar.)