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On Tuesdays, they played Mah Jongg : an unfinished screenplay, five menopausal Jewish women, one strange year by Stern, Milton is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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For two decades, Michael Bern, a gay television writer in Hollywood, has stared at an unfinished screenplay sitting on his desk. After attending a friend's funeral in his hometown of Newport News, Virginia, Michael returns to Hollywood and finds there is more than a screenplay that is unfinished in his life. He finally confronts what the screenplay represents -- memories and stories of the sometimes sad, often hilarious characters of his past, especially his mother and her four closest friends. Florence, Hannah, Rona, Arlene and Doreen -- five more fascinating, menopausal, Jewish women one would never meet. They were friends for more than forty years and saw each other through life's triumphs, tragedies and multiple spouses. Yet, there was only one constant in their lives. On Tuesdays, they played Mah Jongg Review I believe almost everyone would recognize the women in this book, regardless of their ethnicity. From hot flashes (appropriately nicknamed "personal summers"), to their dyed-and-teased hair, bright clothes, and heavy makeup, to their kibitzing and weekly Mah-Jongg games, the women of Milton Stern's "On Tuesdays, They Played Mah-Jongg" are our aunts, our mothers, our sist
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- Author
- Stern, Milton
- Publisher
- StarBooks ; Turnaround [distributor
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781411652293
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
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