From the Bookshelf of Closter Public Library…

[close] Kind of hard to like this book since the characters are so awful, but there is a lot of realism in their portrayals. It is familiar story of a dysfunctional Jewish American middle class family, it goes back in forth in time to follow the parents: Arthur, who's wife Francine has died of breast cancer, and their adult children Maggie and Ethan. The book is funny at times, but more often cringe worthy as Arthur plots the get his children to give them their inheritance from Francine.