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During forty years as a psychologist, I've tried to help people avoid the error of simply judging behavior, because this keeps us from deepening our understanding of how uncanny, perverse, complex, and fascinating our human stories really are. Patty Friedmann gives us Renna and thereby dares us not to judge pathology but to find the humanity in her journey.">--- Is the way to escape a dismal marriage by seducing an underage lover? In One Knife...

AN ORGANIZED PANIC sets sister against brother, born secular humanist against later-in-life evangelical Christian. The sibling squabble underscores a serious struggle, certainly, but this is another tale told in the darkly humorous Friedmann voice--and set in the New Orleans only a native would know. The manuscript took second place in the Faulkner-Wisdom competition in late 2012 and could be her best story telling yet. Friedman will challenge...

In the midst of the biggest natural disaster in American history--Hurricane Katrina--15-year-old Summer "Sumbie" Elmwood's two-year-old sister disappears from the hospital after open-heart surgery and Sumbie is the prime suspect. But in the chaos of New Orleans after the storm, no one is looking for just one little girl. Sumbie must find her missing sister and enlists her two would-be boyfriends to help her, hoping against hope that it's not t...

Otto Fisher has ADHD. He's also adopted. At thirteen, he never thought much about where he came from until his seventh-grade teacher at the prestigious St. Michael's school in New Orleans asks her class to write about an ancestor. Each student must perform their piece in a school play. Otto's adoptive mother, whom he adores, helps him write about one of her ancestors, who was in the Holocaust.Otto's story is the most moving of all-but not for ...

Told in third person from the alternating points of view of three employees in a New Orleans pharmacy, this classic novel follows their friendship, their families' feuds, and their love lives.

What could be more irrelevant in New Orleans than plastic surgery? Not much, unless you think about it. Eleanor Rushing is waiting for the man who holds her attraction--and she knows he's attracted to her, too--to leave his wife. Probably she'll have to wait for the wife to die. In the meantime, she's thinking about cosmetic surgery. She met her cool and sexy surgeon. Dr. Richard Kimball, at a glittering fundraiser. She's smitten. She will pla...

Told in third person from the alternating points of view of three employees in a New Orleans pharmacy, this classic novel follows their friendship, their families' feuds, and their love lives.

A gorgeous tragicomic novel of working-class New Orleans. Zib and Wilson Bailey-Jerusha's two grown kids-think the thick cloud of cigarette smoke enveloping their mother is what probably killed their father. Certainly the toxicity of Jerusha Bailey's dark and cynical attitudes has driven her children far from home. Wilson has escaped to Chicago, married, converted to Judaism, become a professor of Organic Evolution, all of which earns his moth...

Eleanor Rushing is a first-person narrative tour-de-force. While Eleanor is blessed with acute powers of observation and the ability to remember everything, her recollections and impressions are nevertheless often at odds with those of the people around her. As her "relationship" with a local married Methodist minister spins out of control, the loquacious and endearing Eleanor manages to charm us completely. Even as we begin to realize that su...