Four Days

by Gloria Goldreich

Jewish Federation Arts and Letters Award

Past and future converge in the brief span of four days as Ina Feldman, a happily married professional woman and the mother of two much-loved children, whose dreams are haunted by her childhood in a Nazi death camp, confronts an agonizing decision. An unplanned pregnancy has disrupted her contented life, and although she is fiercely pro-choice, given her own history, she wrestles with the option of abortion. Suspense prevails as family and friends share dramatic revelations and advice. She ultimately reaches a certainty, vested with compassion and courage.

Genres: Fiction

415 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 1, 1980

About the author

Gloria Goldreich graduated from Brandeis University and did graduate work in Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She was a coordinator in the Department of Jewish Education at National Hadassah and served as Public Relations Director of the Baruch College of the City University of New York.
While still an undergraduate at Brandeis, she was a winner of the Seventeen Magazine short story contest where her first nationally published work appeared. Subsequently, her short fiction and critical essays have appeared in Commentary, McCalls, Redbook, Ladies Home Journal, Mademoiselle, Ms., Chatelaine, Hadassah Magazine and numerous other magazines and journals. Her work has been widely anthologized and translated.
She is the author of a series of children's books on women in the professions entitled What Can She Be? She has also written novels for young adults, Ten Traditional Jewish Stories, and she edited a prize-winning anthology A Treasury of Jewish Literature.
Her novel, Leah's Journey won the National Jewish Book Award for fiction in 1979, and her second novel Four Days won the Federation Arts and Letters Award. Her other novels include Promised Land, This Burning Harvest, Leah's Children, West to Eden, Mothers, Years of Dreams and That Year of Our War. Her books have been selections of the Book of the Month Club, the Literary Guild and the Troll Book Club.
She has lectured throughout the United States and in Canada.
Gloria Goldreich is married to an attorney and is the mother of two daughters and a son, and the grandmother of six grandchildren.