Too Jewish: The Next Generation
(By Patty Friedmann)
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THE NEW YORK TIMES called Too Jewish: The Next Generation “An oddball debut novel: the strong point is its variety of distinctly rendered voices.”
“A trio of eccentric women and the city of New Orleans come vividly alive in this diverting debut, an entertaining coming-of-age novel … Quirky, irreverent and irresistible.” —Publishers Weekly
Originally titled The Exact Image of Mother, Too Jewish: The Next Generation tells the darkly comic coming-of-age tale of heroine Darby Cooper, the only child of a Holocaust survivor father, who at 30 is still siphoning through a mountain of anger at a narcissistic mother and a quickly declining senile grandmother. Caught between the Cooper matriarchs and her hard-working father, Darby's alienation isn't helped by her discovery that her rich maternal grandparents could have saved her father's mother from the concentration camps ... but did not. Nor is she particularly "at home" in her hometown--always having felt an outsider in largely Catholic New Orleans, she feels estranged from the small, wealthy Jewish community into which she was born.
Family drama aside, 30 has another trick up its sleeve: a ticking biological clock. Darby decides she wants a child, so she goes about fulfilling this desire in typically madcap fashion. But it's impending motherhood that makes Darby realize she must break with her own mother, leave New Orleans, and finally grow up.
"Her original quirky voice never falters, imbuing this novel with a very Southern, rich and comic singularity." -Publishers Weekly
“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
"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”
