Swimming Toward the Ocean

A woman narrates the story of her parents' marriage, describing the complex, sometimes comical, sometimes poignant relationship that exists between Chenia Arnow, a sensuous, Russian-Jewish TmigrTe, her charming but unreliable and unfaithful husband, Ruben, and their lovers, in a novel set against the backdrop of 1950s Brooklyn. A first novel. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.