Mind-body Problem
Author: Rebecca Goldstein
In this book the main character wonders how she falls in love with a man’s mind only to discover that he’s simply fallen in love her body. The answer makes for an outrageously witty and startlingly poignant novel about marriage, sexual and cerebral, liberation, and the solution to what Renée and the philosophers call ‘the mind-body problem’. For Renée, searching for her se….Read More
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