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FINE, I'M A TERRIBLE PERSON
LISA F. ROSENBERG
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This funny mother-daughter caper story stars 73-year-old, overweight former beauty, Aurora Hmans Feldenburg, who is a hapless, perpetually broke, eccentric divorcee living in the wealthy enclave of Marin County in Northern California.
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January 2025
Sibylline Publishing
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ABOUT FINE, I'M A TERRIBLE PERSON:
Aurora is woken by a phone call informing her that her father’s widow has died.
Possibly her last chance at solvency, she decides to drive to Los Angeles to see if there is a will and how she might benefit.
Enter Aurora’s high-strung daughter, 43-year-old Leyla Feldenburg Rothstein, who spends her days keeping up with the other Marin Uber mom’s, manically pursuing perfection in herself, her home, and her children.
When she overhears a conversation at parent’s night at her children's elite private school, and suspects her husband, an investment banker in the cannabis industry, is embarking on an affair, she decides to sneak into a Cannabis business conference he is attending, also in LA, to spy on him.
Leyla Aurora and Leyla’s separate quests simultaneously intersect and enmesh in Los Angeles over the course of a weekend provoking hijinks and chaos.
Will Leyla break free from her mother’s toxic dependency? Will Aurora achieve her lifelong goal of financial security, as always, at Leyla’s expense?
Can you survive your Jewish mother?
Will mother and daughter ever be on speaking terms again?
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Lisa F. Rosenberg has a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley in Art History, a M.A. in Graduate Humanities and a MFA in Creative Writing from Dominican University of California.
Her early professional career was in the blue-chip retail art world as a Gallerist for several prominent San Francisco art dealers including Crown Point Press and John Berggruen Gallery.
She was most recently a public guide at SFMOMA and Museum Educator on staff at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco.
Her writing up until now has been in her professional life, primarily non-fiction, essays for exhibition catalogs, art criticism, tours, and public talks.
Her short story, Family Footnotes, was recently featured in the summer 2024 edition of Amaranth: a journal of food writing, art and design, and she was a quarterfinalist in the Driftwood Press in house short story contest for the Spring of 2024.
This is her debut novel.
Her family heritage is Rhodeslis, Ladino speaking Sephardic Jews from the island of Rhodes.
Her deep affection for her cultural legacy is reflected in the novel’s historical accuracy of language, cultural authenticity, and descriptions of mouthwatering cuisine.
**AUTHOR PHOTO TAKEN FROM HER WEBSITE**
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Sounds like a good one.
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Thanks for stopping.
Mother daughter stories can be tragic or funny. Glad this is a funny one to read.
ReplyDeleteIt does sound like a light read.
DeleteThanks for your comment, Harvee.