The Shiksa Syndrome: A Novel
by:
Laurie Graff (author)
Do shiksas really have more fun? A Jewish girl is about to find out in Laurie Graff’s wickedly witty novel. SHIK·SA (shĭk'sə) n. Yiddish 1. A non-Jewish woman. 2. A quintessential blonde beauty. 3. A Jewish boy’s dream. 4. A Jewish girl’s nightmare.Manhattan publicist Aimee Albert knows a good...
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Do shiksas really have more fun? A Jewish girl is about to find out in Laurie Graff’s wickedly witty novel. SHIK·SA (shĭk'sə) n. Yiddish 1. A non-Jewish woman. 2. A quintessential blonde beauty. 3. A Jewish boy’s dream. 4. A Jewish girl’s nightmare.Manhattan publicist Aimee Albert knows a good spin, but she’s the one who winds up reeling when her gorgeous, goyishe boyfriend breaks up with her–on Christmas! Aimee dusts herself off and decides to seek companionship with a member of her own tribe. There’s just one problem: all the shiksas are snapping them up! So when the very cute, Jewish, and gainfully employed Josh Hirsch catches Aimee’s eye at a kosher wine tasting and mistakes her for a shiksa, what’s a girl to do? Unfortunately, the charade goes on longer than Aimee planned, and her life becomes more complicated than a Bergman film. But Aimee begins to discover that her identity isn’t as easily traded as a pair of Jimmy Choos, and she must decide if having the man of her dreams is worth the price of giving up so much of who she is.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780767927611 (0767927613)
Publish date: October 7th 2008
Publisher: Broadway
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Overall this is a light and quick read which I really enjoyed. Aimee pretends to be a Shiksa (non-Jewish) to get the Jewish man of her dreams and when she finds it is harder to keep up the lie, she becomes honest with herself. By not pretending, she finds the love she was looking for was right there...