THE NEW YORKER

S. is Sarah Worth--a doctor's wife, North Shore matron, loving mother, and suddenly an ardent follower of a Hindu religious leader known as the Arhat, whom she decides to follow to his Arizona Ashram. In the letters and audiocassettes that Sarah sends to her husband, daughter, mother, brother, best friend, and anyone else who even touches her life, master novelist John Updike gives us a witty comedy of manners, a biting satire of life on a religious commune, and the story of an American woman in search of herself.