![]() ![]() Witty, engaging, and wickedly observant, Much Ado About Jessie Kaplan is an unpredictable tale of love, loss, and family rites of passage.Ī looming bat mitzvah and a mother who believes she's the reincarnation of Shakespeare's Dark Lady cause no end of trouble for the suburban heroine of this corny but hilarious second novel by Cohen (Jane Austen in Boca). 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? Jessie has suddenly "remembered" that she was Shakespeare's girlfriend-the Dark Lady of the sonnets-in a previous life. And her cranky twelve-year-old daughter has a bas mitzvah coming up.īut it's Carla's sweet, widowed mother, Jessie Kaplan, who really has her baffled. Her son's teachers want to put him on Ritalin to stop him from wreaking havoc on the fifth grade. ![]() ![]() Her husband, a gastroenterologist in private practice, is coming home frazzled because medicine isn't what it used to be. ![]() 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.Ĭarla Goodman is worried. Paula Marantz Cohen's triumphant first novel, Jane Austen in Boca, was an inspired blend of classic English literature and modern American manners. ![]()
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