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Much Ado About Jessie Kaplan by Paula Marantz Cohen is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Much Ado About Jessie Kaplan about?
Paula Marantz Cohen's triumphant first novel, Jane Austen in Boca, was an inspired blend of classic English literature and modern American manners. Her new novel heads north to the seemingly quiet suburban town of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, for a comedy that even Shakespeare couldn't have imagined.Carla Goodman is worried. Her husband, a gastroenterologist in private practice, is coming home frazzled because medicine isn't what it used to be. Her son's teachers want to put him on Ritalin to stop him from wreaking havoc on the fifth grade. And her cranky twelve-year-old daughter has a bas mitzvah coming up.But it's Carla's sweet, widowed mother, Jessie Kaplan, who really has her baffled. Jessie has suddenly "remembered" that she was Shakespeare's girlfriend---the Dark Lady of the sonnets---in a previous life. Can even the famed Dr. Leonard Samuels, psychiatrist and author of the self-help book How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love My Mother-in-Law,...
Who reads Much Ado About Jessie Kaplan?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Paula Marantz Cohen
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780312324988
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Women'S Fiction
- Rating
- 3.26 / 5 (183 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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