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|  | | Later with Myself: The Misadventures of Millie Moskowitz
Later with Myself is Sheryl Sorrentino's autobiographical fiction debut whose setting shifts between its protagonist's childhood in New York and her surprisingly well-adapted adulthood in California. Memoir-esque in its clarity and candor, Later with Myself presents a straightforward potagonist, Millie Moskowitz, enduring a highly dysfunctional childhood where she ends up pregnant at age 12 while living in an improbable household with her protective (but often passive and ineffectual) mother and a father who lives a bizarre double life with parallel families.
div>Twelve-year-old Millie Moskowitz doesn’t know that her father has a “Mafia mistress” and an illegitimate son; she only knows that he sleeps elsewhere, carries a gun and comes and goes as he pleases. When Lee Moskowitz is at home, Millie is his personal foot rubber and back scratcher while her mother cooks his meals, washes dishes and irons his shirts. Seeking to escape her oppressive home life, Millie skips school to meet select neighborhood men for a soda in a delivery truck, a cigarette in a supermarket storeroom, or a ride on the school bus to an abandoned house. Mill | |  | | Stage Daughter
Razia Schoenberg is a rebellious seventh-grade theater student who is the product of an unfortunate one-night stand. Watch the drama unfold when Raz defies her mom's wishes and locates her long-lost father, a devout Muslim man in an arranged marriage who doesn't even know she exists.
p style="text-align: justify;">Every unmarried woman fears unwanted pregnancy (just as every married man dreads discovering he fathered an unknown child). Sonya Schoenberg dreamed of someday becoming a famous actress—until a hapless, one-time tryst with a Muslim man landed her the lifetime role of single mother.br />
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Sonya tries to keep her dream alive by enrolling her “stage daughter,” Razia, in a competitive performing arts school. But Raz prefers drawing to drama and has no problem defying her mom to get what she wants. While Sonya struggles to keep a tenu | |  | | The Floater
N.Y. Times best selling author, Ken Morris (author of Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin, Man in the Middle, Deadly Trade), calls The Floater "the Rocky of legal dramas" and adds, "Protagonist Norma Reyes--hired as an overqualified secretarial floater and forced to battle long odds in a high powered law firm--is often beaten down but never knocked out. Gritty and necessarily graphic, The Floater is a well-written and spellbinding ride through Lilly Ledbetter-glass ceilings and racial barriers. Shocking, uplifting, and enlightening, The Floater is a dramatic tour de force."
All 46-year-old Norma Reyes wanted was to shatter the glass ceiling and become a well-paid professional. Despite being raised in a poor, Puerto Rican household (the eldest daughter of an unfeeling mother and a lecherous father), Norma manages to put herself through law school in middle-age, confident that once she earns her law degree, she'll land a job at a top-tier law firm and be able to support her elderly mother while subsidizing her welfare-collecting, drug abusing younger sister, 22-year-old autistic nephew, and 19-year-old niece (herself the single-mother of two young |
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