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Coming of age in post-Eisenhower Brooklyn, Jewish teen Valentine Kessler struggles with love, enmity, and betrayal in the shadow of her mother's sharp-eyed band of Mah Jongg players. 35,000 first printing.

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"[A] zany, irreverent, cheerful novel.. Bristles with energy and sharpness." -- Boston Globe

"Engrossing.. Cinematic, effortlessly beautiful descriptions will spark the reader's imagination, and myriad plot twists and turns will keep you guessing." -- Chicago Tribune

"Engrossing.... Cinematic, effortlessly beautiful descriptions will spark the reader's imagination, and myriad plot twists and turns will keep you guessing."--Chicago Tribune

"Kirshenbaum...has an original voice and, even better, an original sensibility."--Los Angeles Times

"[A] zany, irreverent, cheerful novel.... Bristles with energy and sharpness."--Boston Globe

"Lays bare [a] collection of Brooklyn souls in the... style of short story masters Raymond Carver and Ann Beattie."--Boston Herald

"A quicksilver fable... at once ironic and mystical, tender and edgy, loaded with shtick and downright subversive."--Booklist (Starred review)

A quicksilver fable... at once ironic and mystical, tender and edgy, loaded with shtick and downright subversive. --Booklist (Starred review)"

Lays bare [a] collection of Brooklyn souls in the... style of short story masters Raymond Carver and Ann Beattie. --Boston Herald"

Kirshenbaum...has an original voice and, even better, an original sensibility. --Los Angeles Times"
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Binnie Kirshenbaum is a professor of fiction writing at Columbia University.

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  • PublisherEcco Pr
  • Publication date2004
  • ISBN 10 0060520868
  • ISBN 13 9780060520861
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages336
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