Swimming Toward The Ocean
Carole L. Glickfeld
Knopf, Feb 2001, 24.00, 388 pp.
ISBN: 0375408924
In 1953 Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn, Russian-Jew Chenia Arnow agrees with her husband Ruben's pronouncement that they cannot afford a third child. Chenia tells the doctor no baby, as she knows they cannot afford a third child plus she is closing in on fifty. Though the doctor gives her a shot to cause a miscarriage, Chenia gives birth to Devorah.
Ruben decides...
