Much Ado About Jessie Kaplan: A NovelPaula 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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... she wants.” The salesgirl glanced slyly at Stephanie and her mother as she spoke. She was close enough to her own bat mitzvah to know that what the bat mitzvah girl wants wasn't always in line with what the mother of the bat mitzvah ...
... she's hurting me, she's hurting me!” Jeffrey screamed. “She's pulling my hair out. Help!” Carla, too tired to intervene, had fallen onto the kitchen chair, while Jessie calmly poked the casserole with a fork. Jessie Kaplan was unfazed ...
... She knew this was ostensibly the logical course of action. In the lexicon of feminism, instilled in her from her college days, she was not operating up to par. Her college roommate was now a senior vice president at Maidenform, and her ...
... she had fallen in love with him, that he didn't believe that what he did, in having greater social prestige, was superior to what she did. If anything, he admired her more for dealing with the emotional aspects of life that often ...
... she found the prayers and rituals to be enormously compelling and consoling. Judaism, as she saw it, was a vast, complex tapestry from which one might follow any thread to arrive at a profound truth. She had tried unsuccessfully to ...
Contents
Chapter Seven | |
Chapter Nine | |
Chapter Thirteen | |
Chapter Fifteen | |
Chapter Seventeen | |
Chapter Twenty | |
Chapter Twentythree | |
Chapter Twentysix | |
Chapter Twentyeight | |