"This was the very thing that my publisher had fretted over: no one would know what the word #treyf meant outside of New York City. It hasn‘t yet been dragged into the Yiddish-English lexicon, like schlep and schmuck and yutz and putz. No one at the reading would see the cover image of a three-year-old me sitting on the lap of the 1965 Macy‘s Santa and get the joke." #JewLit
JewishBookCouncil Elissa Altman is guest blogging for Jewish Book Council all week as part of our #Visiting Scribe series on The #ProsenPeople blog! Find her first post for the week here: http://bit.ly/2cL6YqT 8y
LeahBergen This sounds great! 8y
quirkyreader I hope this doesn't sound spoilerish, but culture clashes abound in this memoir. 8y