I love Gootie
my grandmother's story
by Max Apple
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Max Apple describes what it was like to be an American boy raised by a Yiddish-speaking grandmother who approached everything, from acne to dating to career choices, from the perspective of a time and place long past. Here is Gootie coping with the frayed relationships within her own family and her less than happy marriage to the wildly determined and self-styled American, Rocky. Here is Gootie coping with anti-Semitic neighbors and outlandish business propositions.
And here is Gootie offering a hilarious, alternate-reality commentary on grandson Max's first teenage love affair. Conjuring up a great world around a tiny, muddy Lithuanian village, Gootie gave Max the ultimate gift of all: the art of storytelling itself.
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American Authors, Biography, Childhood and youth, Family, Family relationships, Grandmothers, Immigrants, Jewish women, Jews, Social life and customs, Large type books, New York Times reviewed, Grandparent and child, Jewish way of life, Jews, social life and customsPeople
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