Much Ado About Jessie KaplanPaula 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. Carla Goodman is worried. Her husband, a gastroenterologist in private practice, is coming home frazzled because medicine isn't what it used to be. Her son's teachers want to put him on Ritalin to stop him from wreaking havoc on the fifth grade. And her cranky twelve-year-old daughter has a bas mitzvah coming up. But it's Carla's sweet, widowed mother, Jessie Kaplan, who really has her baffled. Jessie has suddenly "remembered" that she was Shakespeare's girlfriend---the 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 problems like these? 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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Contents
Chapter One | 3 |
Chapter Two | 8 |
Chapter Three | 12 |
Chapter Four | 17 |
Chapter Five | 23 |
Chapter Six | 26 |
Chapter Seven | 31 |
Chapter Eight | 39 |
Chapter Twentyseven | 150 |
Chapter Twentyeight | 155 |
Chapter Twentynine | 158 |
Chapter Thirty | 164 |
Chapter Thirtyone | 169 |
Chapter Thirtytwo | 175 |
Chapter Thirtythree | 182 |
Chapter Thirtyfour | 186 |
Chapter Nine | 44 |
Chapter Ten | 47 |
Chapter Eleven | 50 |
Chapter Twelve | 55 |
Chapter Thirteen | 59 |
Chapter Fourteen | 67 |
Chapter Fifteen | 75 |
Chapter Sixteen | 85 |
Chapter Seventeen | 88 |
Chapter Eighteen | 92 |
Chapter Nineteen | 99 |
Chapter Twenty | 104 |
Chapter Twentyone | 110 |
Chapter Twentytwo | 113 |
Chapter Twentythree | 121 |
Chapter Twentyfour | 124 |
Chapter Twentyfive | 130 |
Chapter Twentysix | 138 |
Chapter Thirtyfive | 191 |
Chapter Thirtysix | 199 |
Chapter Thirtyseven | 208 |
Chapter Thirtyeight | 214 |
Chapter Thirtynine | 222 |
Chapter Forty | 235 |
Chapter Fortyone | 238 |
Chapter Fortytwo | 241 |
Chapter Fortythree | 244 |
Chapter Fortyfour | 248 |
Chapter Fortyfive | 252 |
Chapter Fortysix | 255 |
Chapter Fortyseven | 257 |
Chapter Fortyeight | 266 |
Chapter Fortynine | 271 |
Acknowledgments | 279 |
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