Sophie, the novel's protagonist, is dead; she drifts in a phantasmagorical limbo of memories, fictions, and dreams. She has much to accomplish. She must travel in a coffin from Paris to New York to attend her own funeral. She must obtain a divorce from her husband. She must finish writing a book about her family and mend her relationship with her parents, who divorced long ago, before the war, before the death trains, back when they lived in Budapest, postponing the inevitable immigration. And finally, she must understand who Sophie Blind is without her husband and academic career, her father's psychoanalysis and the Jewish rituals of her Hungarian relatives. Sophie has never felt so free and alive. Susan Taube is a Hungarian-American writer, philosopher, and religious scholar. Her experimental prose, until recently forgotten, was highly praised by Samuel Beckett and Susan Sontag. 'Divorce,' a confessional, caustic novel about paralyzing misogyny and the ghosts of the Holocaust, was the only book she published during her lifetime. A week after its publication, she drowned herself in the Atlantic Ocean.