A 2011 KINDLE BESTSELLER!

TOP 10 BEST JEWISH FICTION BOOKS: Boomer Book Series

?A powerful and emotional story of a Jewish family here in America.? -Life in Review

?Patty Friedmann may be the greatest New Orleans author of the past quarter century. If you like New Orleans, if you?re interested in its Jewish community or Southern life or simply the rhythms of America's most unique city, you?ll love Too Jewish. And even if you don?t give a hoot about NOLA and its Jews, buy Too Jewish for another reason: it's a great read.? -Failed Messiah

?The Friedmann comic voice is filled with so much anger, outrage, astonishment, fear, resentment, and unleashed id that we readers nearly fall out of our chairs in wonder and laughter and shock.? -Oxford American

Walker Percy ?once wrote that ?the next Southern literary revival will be led by a Jewish mother, which is to say, a shrewd self-possessed woman with a sharp eye and a cunning retentive mind who sees the small triumphs and tragedies around her and has her own secret method of rendering it, with an art all her own.? And that is totally Patty Friedmann.? -Anne Gisleson, Signposts in a Strange Land


WHAT YOU?RE BUYING

Patty Friedmann had that sad childhood that is pretty much a prerequisite for a novelist. She's written seven darkly comic novels--and finally she draws on the autobiographical material that made it all possible.

Too Jewish tells a story much like the central tale of her young life: her father suffered from survivor guilt, all the while trying to make his way in a hostile society. Like Patty's father, protagonist Bernie Cooper escapes Nazi Germany, leaving his mother behind, then tries to make a life for himself with a wealthy, thoroughly assimilated Jewish girl in the Deep South. But suddenly, snobberies he couldn?t even have guessed at are set in motion. It seems Letty's prominent Jewish parents hate him for being?too Jewish!

A bittersweet love story told in three novellas, each from the point of view of one member of the Cooper family.

HONORS AND BLURBS FOR OTHER BOOKS

Eleanor Rushing?Discover Great New Writers

Eleanor Rushing?Original Voices

Secondhand Smoke?BookSense 76

Taken Away?Small Press Book of the Year Award (ForeWord) finalist

Secondhand Smoke?list of 30 Most Underrated Southern Books in Oxford American along with Gone with the Wind, A Lesson Before Dying, Deliverance: ?The Friedmann comic voice is filled with so much anger, outrage, astonishment, fear, resentment, and unleashed id that we readers nearly fall out of our chairs in wonder and laughter and shock.?

Secondhand Smoke??A Confederacy of Dunces meets The Corrections?Both funny and sad, this novel deserves the wild popularity it is sure to achieve.??Library Journal

Eleanor Rushing??Intriguing and touching?One finishes [Eleanor Rushing] impressed by Friedmann's compassion for human frailty.?Publishers Weekly

Side Effects?Instead of treating the romantic possibilities as grounds for lowbrow comedy, Friedmann explores the gritty realities with refreshing candor.??Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Odds??Patty Friedmann writes with tremendous wit, wisdom, and a marksman's eye for the telling details of human behavior.??Carrie Brown






A 2011 KINDLE BESTSELLER!

TOP 10 BEST JEWISH FICTION BOOKS: Boomer Book Series

?A powerful and emotional story of a Jewish family here in America.? -Life in Review

?Patty Friedmann may be the greatest New Orleans author of the past quarter century. If you like New Orleans, if you?re interested in its Jewish community or Southern life or simply the rhythms of America's most unique city, you?ll love Too Jewish. And even if you don?t give a hoot about NOLA and its Jews, buy Too Jewish for another reason: it's a great read.? -Failed Messiah

?The Friedmann comic voice is filled with so much anger, outrage, astonishment, fear, resentment, and unleashed id that we readers nearly fall out of our chairs in wonder and laughter and shock.? -Oxford American

Walker Percy ?once wrote that ?the next Southern literary revival will be led by a Jewish mother, which is to say, a shrewd self-possessed woman with a sharp eye and a cunning retentive mind who sees the small triumphs and tragedies around her and has her own secret method of rendering it, with an art all her own.? And that is totally Patty Friedmann.? -Anne Gisleson, Signposts in a Strange Land


WHAT YOU?RE BUYING

Patty Friedmann had that sad childhood that is pretty much a prerequisite for a novelist. She's written seven darkly comic novels--and finally she draws on the autobiographical material that made it all possible.

Too Jewish tells a story much like the central tale of her young life: her father suffered from survivor guilt, all the while trying to make his way in a hostile society. Like Patty's father, protagonist Bernie Cooper escapes Nazi Germany, leaving his mother behind, then tries to make a life for himself with a wealthy, thoroughly assimilated Jewish girl in the Deep South. But suddenly, snobberies he couldn?t even have guessed at are set in motion. It seems Letty's prominent Jewish parents hate him for being?too Jewish!

A bittersweet love story told in three novellas, each from the point of view of one member of the Cooper family.

HONORS AND BLURBS FOR OTHER BOOKS

Eleanor Rushing?Discover Great New Writers

Eleanor Rushing?Original Voices

Secondhand Smoke?BookSense 76

Taken Away?Small Press Book of the Year Award (ForeWord) finalist

Secondhand Smoke?list of 30 Most Underrated Southern Books in Oxford American along with Gone with the Wind, A Lesson Before Dying, Deliverance: ?The Friedmann comic voice is filled with so much anger, outrage, astonishment, fear, resentment, and unleashed id that we readers nearly fall out of our chairs in wonder and laughter and shock.?

Secondhand Smoke??A Confederacy of Dunces meets The Corrections?Both funny and sad, this novel deserves the wild popularity it is sure to achieve.??Library Journal

Eleanor Rushing??Intriguing and touching?One finishes [Eleanor Rushing] impressed by Friedmann's compassion for human frailty.?Publishers Weekly

Side Effects?Instead of treating the romantic possibilities as grounds for lowbrow comedy, Friedmann explores the gritty realities with refreshing candor.??Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Odds??Patty Friedmann writes with tremendous wit, wisdom, and a marksman's eye for the telling details of human behavior.??Carrie Brown

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