Much Ado About Jessie Kaplan

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Macmillan, 2005 - Fiction - 288 pages

From the bestselling author of Jane Austen in Boca, "another witty tale that combines classic literature with contemporary social comedy."---Hartford Courant

Carla Goodman's life in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, is a little bit stressful these days. Her doctor husband is frazzled, her son's teachers say he needs Ritalin, and she's in the throes of planning her daughter's bat mitzvah. But it's her sweet widowed mother, Jessie Kaplan, who really has Carla worried, for Jessie has suddenly "remembered" that she was Shakespeare's Dark Lady of the Sonnets in a previous life. Can even the famed Dr. Leonard Samuels, psychiatrist and author of the self-help book, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love My Mother-in-Law, help with a problem like this?
Witty, engaging, and wickedly observant, Much Ado About Jessie Kaplan is an unpredictable tale of love, loss, and family rites of passage.

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Section 1
1
Section 2
17
Section 3
23
Section 4
31
Section 5
39
Section 6
47
Section 7
55
Section 8
59
Section 17
124
Section 18
138
Section 19
150
Section 20
164
Section 21
169
Section 22
175
Section 23
182
Section 24
186

Section 9
67
Section 10
75
Section 11
85
Section 12
88
Section 13
99
Section 14
104
Section 15
113
Section 16
121
Section 25
191
Section 26
199
Section 27
241
Section 28
248
Section 29
257
Section 30
271
Section 31
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Paula Marantz Cohen is Distinguished Professor of English at Drexel University in Philadelphia. She is the author of the novels, Jane Austen in Boca, Jane Austen in Scarsdale, and Much Ado About Jessie Kaplan, and four scholarly works of nonfiction, including Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth and The Daughter as Reader: Encounters Between Literature and Life. She lives in Moorestown, New Jersey, with her husband and two children.

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