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...drinking and drugging to the point of blackouts, cheating on his girlfriend and infuriating his friends, who have arranged for him to say Kaddish (the Jewish mourner's prayer) for his father, in the hope of bringing him closure and ending his self-destructive behavior. (Alex, as is typical ofSmith's melting-pot London, is half Chinese, half Jewish. We also meet black English Jews and an African-American Buddhist.) But Alex has a more pressing concern: finding Kitty Alexander, a reclusive, aging film star in New York City, whose rarely seen signature, the white whale of celebrity ephemera...
Like Wilson, Dunn also has experience incollege administration, serving as president ofSmith from 1985 to 1995. Before that, she was deanof Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania...
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