Perpetual Kin

Literature & Fiction

Kaufman, Pat

Contemporary

Infinity Pub

Perpetual Kin is a kippers-to-caviar American story . . .a novel about a family caught between Old and New World traditions and hopes. Pat Kaufman's style is brisk and tender, a lyrical mockery belying an affectionate sentiment towards her subject and subjects. Sherman and Abe Zeller, first-generation Americans, make a vow at their dying mother's bedside always to stick together. Their little sister Gwendolyn orchestrates Abe's marriage to her best friend Sadie and is horrified when they honeymoon without her. Worse, Sherman elopes with a total stranger. Gwendolyn, devastated, quickly marries Abe's best friend. The three couples are incestuously close, become wealthy with an inordinate respect for money as safety. Their internecine battles rage as Hitler rises and falls. Their children grow up and seek independence, bewildering them. "Pat Kaufman deploys her Jane Austen-like social analysis and Malamud-like economy of language to depict three generations of New Yorkers on their way from the Lower East Side to Park Avenue and Westchester. She has a sharp-shooter's eye for the comedy, tragedy, and inanity of family dynamics and uses it to reveal piercing lessons about trouble and disasters of love, power, and loyalty." -Nat Simeon, Professor, St. Louis University "Kaufman's book is a marvelously humane engagement with the truth that kinship--the contradictory communion of irreconcilable desires--lasts into perpetuity. And the further truth her book illustrates is that we deal with kinship as best we can, for it gives meaning to both the living and the dead." -Macdara Woods, Poet, Aosdána

Confrontation Pr Liu

A fanciful tale of a shy New York librarian and her pesky parrot, who travel to the Caribbean for a life-changing adventure. Along the way, they learn the tricks of traveling with ease, figure out how to barter and experience romance in human and avian guises. Told in words and colorful artwork, this travel tale is mischievous, humorous, visually inviting and instructive

Alura & Nestor Take a Trip

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

New Chapter Pub

<p>Henry Caldwell was as lonely and sad as he had ever been in his life. After the death of his father in a car accident, he and his mother had to move to a new city for her to take a much needed job. Money was scarce, their rental house was small and cramped, and as the new kid in a new school he became the perfect target for the school bully. And to make matters worse, his Uncle Roger, a most unusual man, was coming for a visit. This beautifully written story that captures the highs and lows of being a kid, introduces a very powerful and transforming concept - love rocks. It all comes together in a touching and uplifting book with an inspiring message that will appeal as much to adults as kids.</p>

The Love Rock Chronicle

See, Tony

Genre Fiction

KCR Publishing

El Vademecum Del Manager

Business & Money

Wetmore, Cindy

Economics

Juan Granica S A

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