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Jan.04.2012
There is nothing like ten days with one's family to bring forth old obsessions and childhood memories.  When Anna, Portia and Emery’s mother, Louise, suffers a massive heart attack, the three grown children return to California to be with their parents.  Anna, once certain that her...
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May.22.2011
From back cover:  "Writers from Gulf Shores to New Market, from high schoolers to great-grandmothers, from housewives and doctors to professors and retired accountants, have generously contributed to this volume.  Their words are funny, outrageous, poignant, and pointed, but always genuine. ...
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Aug.13.2010
"Jessica Blau’s second novel is not only a wise and pitch-perfect depiction of family dynamics but also happens to be unrelentingly, side-splittingly funny. I dare you to forget this family." (Irina Reyn, author of What Happened to Anna K.) “[H]ilarious and heartbreaking....[A] testament to the...