Dimensions
152 x 233 x 29mm
When Roz Rosenzweig, a bright, brash and impulsive New York Jew, meets Edwin Anderson at a party in her friend's Manhattan apartment, she has trouble believing the earnest, soft-spoken Nebraskan is for real. The improbable courtship results in marriage, but when their daughter Miranda is born, Roz's love for her is so fierce and so focused that it risks crowding out everything else, even her husband.
The ties that bind Roz and her daughter threaten to strangle Miranda as she enters her teenager years, but fortunately Roz, "wacky, insecure, doting and fabulous" - as even her daughter's friend sees her - is increasingly distracted by affairs of her own.
Fabulously accomplished, beautifully judged, funny, warm and wry, Thisbe Nissen's is a novel to delight in.
