Much Ado About Jessie Kaplan: A NovelSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 1 квіт. 2007 р. - 288 стор. Paula Marantz Cohen's triumphant first novel, Jane Austen in Boca, was an inspired blend of classic English literature and modern American manners. Her new novel heads north to the seemingly quiet suburban town of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, for a comedy that even Shakespeare couldn't have imagined. |
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... Jewish ritual (or risk their developing weird scenarios as to what went on when so many Jews got together in one place). Carla's mother, Jessie, planned to invite large contingents from both sides of her family. This included the highly ...
... Jewish woman, who performed household chores with cheerfulness and efficiency. Carla sometimes believed that her mother had been switched at birth and was actually the product of a nice Protestant family who had been saddled, in her ...
... Jewish women, an enormous respect for physicians, whom she placed on a metaphorical dais above all other human beings. Mark greatly appreciated this attitude. It always gave him a lift to overhear his motherinlaw referring to him ...
... Jewish stock, a fact that Rose and Charles Goodman managed to relay by a certain superciliousness of manner that would have bothered a more prickly daughterinlaw. Carla was darker and more robust in the style of her Mediterranean roots ...
... Jewish ritual and had gone along because his wife's family had found it important. Now that Grandpa Abe was dead and Jessie appeared to care less, he could hardly see the point of holding to the old ways simply for the sake of doing so ...
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Chapter Seven | |
Chapter Nine | |
Chapter Thirteen | |
Chapter Fifteen | |
Chapter Seventeen | |
Chapter Twenty | |
Chapter Twentythree | |
Chapter Twentysix | |
Chapter Twentyeight | |