Secondhand Smoke: A Wickedly Dark Comedy by Patty Friedmann (538 Reviews)    Price verified 5 minutes ago

"A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES Meets THE CORRECTIONS in Friedmann's warm and wacky tale of family dysfunction and redemption" -- Library Journal "The outrageous developments and swift pace make this novel hard to resist." -Publishers Weekly JERUSHA'S POISON... ... to just about everyone--particularly her adult children. Fortunately, poison is the very superfood of the satirist. Patty Friedmann, the reigning queen of black comedy, hits one out of the park with her family straight out of Tolstoy--unhappy in its own way, a uniquely twisted Southern way. Meet the Baileys. Born and bred in a working class New Orleans neighborhood, Zib and Wilson think the thick cloud of cigarette smoke enveloping their mother is what probably killed their father. Certainly the toxicity of Jerusha's dark, cynical attitudes has driven her children far from the nest. Wilson has escaped to Chicago, married a woman who hates him, converted to Judaism, and become a decorated professor of Organic ...

Genre: Humor & Satire