Boundaries

by Roberta Silman

***Courtesy of TwoBears Books*** In BOUNDARIES, Silman holds to her characteristic the importance and durability of mature, profound, resposible human attachment. Mady is thirty-eight, Jewish, the mother of three, and a widow who is still struggling to make a new life for herself and her children two years afther her lawyer husband's tragic death. She knows she must find a job, get out in the world, function as a woman as well as a mother. Friends and relatives try to help. But a round of dinner parties leaves her lonelier than ever. Vacationing with her children near the tip of Long Island, Mady meets Hans, in his mid-forties, unmarried, a local potter, and a German, the son of a wartime Nazi. Despite their disparate backgrounds, Mady is attracted to this gentle, self-assured survivor-and is also surprised and confused by her desire for him. Mady and Hans cautiously begin a relationship, but barriers-from within themselves as well as without-threaten to keep them apart. As they confront their own haunting memories, their fears and their expectations, they must also deal with separation, more matchmaking, the intervention of friends, the apprehensions of Mady's children and parents, and a succession of random events that are part of the fabric of daily life in the mid-seventies.

273 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1979