Too Jewish & Taken Away Two New Novels By Patty Friedman |
ABOUT THE BOOK: TOO JEWISH
TOO JEWISH is among the debut novels being published by booksBnimble, the new on-line publishing venture created by New Orleans mystery writer Julie Smith. Patty Friedmann, who is a marvelous writer on almost any subject, describes this new novel as, "the book I was born to write, " and it is very much on point for the theme of Words & Music, 2010, war literature. After escaping the Nazis, Bernie Cooper, a young American immigrant, ends up in New Orleans, where he finds an entirely new kind of prejudice against Jews—the kind that comes from other Jews. Sadly, they’re his own in-laws. This is the story of his peculiar “mixed marriage” and the love that keeps his family together. Think The Time Traveler’s Wife. Definitely a love story; definitely not a “romance.”
ABOUT THE BOOK: TAKEN AWAY, A NOVEL FOR YOUNG ADULTS
Summer Elmwood is 15 years old and her two-year old sister Amalia has just undergone open heart surgery when Hurricane Katrina strikes New Orleans. In the immediate aftermath of the storm, Amalia disappears from the hospital, a compelling story of the human emotions set in play by Katrina and the damage to property and lives wrought by the storm. |
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: PATTY FRIEDMANN
Patty Friedmann is quite simply one of the finest writers in Louisiana. Not only did she stay in New Orleans throughout the storm, she ended up being rescued twice. No one knows New Orleans better and no one is better qualified to write about that period.
—Julie Smith, author of the popular Skip Langdon series of mystery/detective novels, Edgar Award winner.
Patty Friedmann has two new books released in late 2010: a young adult novel called Taken Awayand a literary e-novel titled Too Jewish, which is amongthe debut titles of the new e-publishing venture, booksBnimble, created by New Orleans mystery writer Julie Smith. She also is the author of six darkly comic literary novels set in New Orleans: The Exact Image of Mother, Eleanor Rushing, Odds, Secondhand Smoke, Side Effects, and A Little Bit Ruined as well as the humor book Too Smart to Be Rich. Her novels have been chosen as Discover Great New Writers, Original Voices, and Book Sense 76 selections, and her humor book was syndicated by the New York Times. She has published reviews, essays, and short stories in Publishers Weekly, Newsweek, Oxford American, Speakeasy, Horn Gallery, Short Story, LA LIT, Brightleaf, New Orleans Review, and The Times-Picayune and in anthologies The Great New American Writers Cookbook, Above Ground,Christmas Stories from Louisiana, My New Orleans, New Orleans Noir, andLife in the Wake. Her stage pieces have been part ofNative Tongues. Recently Oxford American listed Secondhand Smokewith 29 titles that included Gone With the Wind, Deliverance, and A Lesson Before Dyingas the greatest Underrated Southern Books. With slight interruptions for education and natural disasters, she always has lived in New Orleans.
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