How Sweet It Is! - Hardcover

Rosenbaum, Thane

3.62

39 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1942134002 ISBN 13: 9781942134008

Publisher: Mandel Vilar Press, 2015

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This hilarious novel follows the Posner family—two Holocaust survivors and their young son—doing everything they can to avoid one another in Miami in 1972, the site of the Republican and Democratic political conventions, the rise of the counterculture, the Cold War, the desegregation of the old South. This is also the Miami of Gleason, Sinatra, Lansky, and I.B.Singer.

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“A powerful time capsule: open its covers and you enter a bittersweet moment in American Jewish history....It's all here—gangsters, survivors, flower children, school integration, Yiddish literature, the Munich Olympics, and the strange and beautiful possibilities of catastrophe and renewal in the elephant graveyard of 20th century American Jews, Miami Beach. Dive in and enjoy!—Dara Horn, author of A Guide for the Perplexed and The World to Come "Fans of the greater Miami megalopolis rejoice! Finally there's a novel that nails your part of the world!" –Gary Shteyngart, author of The Russian Debutante's Handbook and Absurdistan "How Sweet It Is plunges its fictional character into the thrilling, dangerous and often absurd world of Miami in the 70s, and as a result the readers get to experience the historical events as if from the inside. It's that rare book that manages to be both intensely informative and huge joy to read." –Lara Vapnyar, author of There Are Jews in My House and Memoirs of a Muse

About the Author:

Thane Rosenbaum: Thane Rosenbaum, author of The Stranger Within Sarah Stein, The Golems of Gotham, Second Hand Smoke, and Elijah Visible, Wallant Award winner for the best book of Jewish American fiction, is Senior Fellow at New York University School of Law, where he directs the Forum on Law, Culture, and Society.

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