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The Frumkiss family business : a megilla in 14 chapters / Michael Wex.

by Wex, Michael, 1954-

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Alfred A. Knopf Canada, c2010.

Jewish families -- Fiction.

Middle class families -- Fiction.

Toronto (Ont.) -- Fiction.

Ontario -- Fiction.

9780307397775 (2011 Vintage Canada pbk.)

361 p. ; 23 cm.

"The Frumkiss family doesn't look much different from any of the others in Toronto's Bathurst Manor. Grandpa survived the Holocaust; Grandma the Second came from Poland at the age of five. Dad's a foot doctor; Mom is dead, and her mother -- Grandma Number One --died while giving birth to her in Kazakhstan. Her three kids -- the oldest is forty-two -- are as frustrated and directionless as most baby boomers with no real financial worries. One's in Toronto, there's one in the suburbs and the third lives in Israel. As far as the Frumkisses know, all that distinguishes them from anybody else is that Grandpa is a famous Yiddish writer who ended up working for the CBC. But Grandpa's death sets off a chain of events that force the Frumkisses to see how different their family is from all the others."--Publisher.

Jewish fiction.

Canadian fiction.

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