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1 online resource (1 audio file (5hr., 28 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Various Readers. |
| Summary |
From filmmaker and New Yorker contributor Susanna Fogel comes a comedic novel about a fractured family of New England Jews and their discontents. Told entirely in letters to a heroine we never meet, we get to know the Fellers through their check-ins with Julie over the course of three decades: their thank-you notes, letters of condolence, family gossip, and good old-fashioned familial passive-aggression. Together, their missives-some sardonic, others absurd, others heartbreaking-weave a tapestry of a very modern family trying (and often failing) to show one another they care. The titular "nuclear family" includes, among many others, a narcissistic former-child-prodigy father who has taken up haiku writing in his old age and his new wife, a traditional Chinese woman whose attempts to help her stepdaughter find a man include FedExing her silk gowns from Filene's Basement; their six-year-old son, Stuart, whose favorite condiment is truffle oil and who wears suits to bed; and Julie's mother, a psychologist who never remarried but may be in love with her arrogant Rabbi and overshares about everything, including the threesome she had with Dutch grad students in 1972. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Jewish families -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781982489359 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1982489359 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11854429 |
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