Book summary

Anne Rosenbaum is content to live in the shadow of her husband, a powerful Hollywood film executive. But when she starts a popular book club among Los Angeles's elite, she finds herself shedding her reticent personality. After their son Samuel has an epiphanic experience in Israel, her husband suddenly begins to revert to the Jewish orthodoxy he had left behind. Threatened with the loss of the husband she loves, Anne must find ways, both emotional and intellectual, to keep him from falling into the shadow of fundamentalism. A nuanced, loving, and cerebral novel, YOU OR SOMEONE LIKE YOU questions the role of thought and belief in its characters' lives, and in our own.

Media reviews

"A savvy novel that deals with Hollywood from a cultural rather than a tabloid perspective." (starred review)