Name: Mind-Body Problem
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Author: Rebecca Goldstein

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A young woman struggles to become liberated from the restrictions of her orthodox Jewish background as she explores the pleasures of the body, learning at the same time about the excitements of the mind.  She enrolls as a philosophy graduate student, then marries Noam Himmel, a world-renowned mathematician.  But soon she discovers that being married to a genius is not always an elevating experience. 

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