![]() ![]() This book took some structural risks that paid off. However, as the parallel story of her Holocaust years unfolds, one starts to believe Bubbie is capable of super-human feats of survival, or at the very least deserves to go out on her own terms. Her family is concerned that she's too frail for independent living, but she's gotten herself kicked out of six nursing homes in five months. In the modern-day sections of the memoir, Lazega's "Bubbie" (Yiddish for grandma) is a stubborn, opinionated Miami retiree who could be the model for Sophia on "The Golden Girls" sitcom. The Jewish comedic tradition-prickly, pessimistic, absurd-was forged in the furnace of centuries of persecution and diaspora. ![]() Russel Lazega's exciting and humorous account of his grandmother Lea's escape from Nazi-occupied Poland reminded me of my favorite Mel Brooks movie, To Be or Not To Be. North Street Book Prize 2015 (view all the winners) Critiques for Poems, Stories, and Essays.Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest (no fee).Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest. ![]()
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