Amusing but Poignant New Novel for Jewish widows.

I’m writing to you as the author of a newly released novel about widowhood. After losing my father and father-in-law and watching my two mothers cope with their individual losses, I felt it was time to introduce a novel that dealt with widows’ issues. And because I am Jewish I wrote about Jewish widows. I have been receiving a wonderful response to the book and after coming across your site online, thought your members might enjoy it. The book is titled, Life, Death ,and Doughnuts.

The synopsis is as follows.

It is 1944 and the Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School in New York City is teeming with women. Over doughnuts, Sarah, Mitzi, Ellie, and Iris form a quirky quartet of secretaries-to-be. What ensues is a lifelong friendship carried out primarily through monthly dinner parties composed of the four women and their tag-along husbands. Over a span of 50 years, children are born, hearts are broken, a president resigns, a war is lost, careers peak and crash, weight is gained and lost and gained again, and all the while food is burned, fondued, flambeed, whipped up, and brought in. Sadly, but not uncommonly, the husbands pass away one by one, revealing the unfortunate fact that most women outlive their mates. The girlfriends' individual responses to widowhood illustrate that "moving on" can have a host of meanings and that grief has no time frame. As the friends face down time, distance, and loss, each discovers that a 50-year friendship, a healthy dose of humor, and the occasional doughnut can trump whatever else life drops in your path.

Now a little about me:

I am the author of five previous books. I've been reviewed in all the major papers including Variety and The Washington Post. The Library Journal, in their review of my last book, Watsamatta U: A Get-a-Grip-Guide to Staying Sane Through Your Child's College Application Process, claimed that I am as funny, if not more so than Dave Barry. (And you have no idea how I hate this part of my job...I was taught as a child not to toot my own horn, but my publisher says I have to) I've appeared on The Today Show, Book Talk, all the major news channels, and on too many radio shows to count. I'm also a playwright and my plays have been produced around the country. Feel free to Google me. I think you'll see that I am highly credentialed. And I'm very friendly too!

Life, Death, and Doughnuts is a funny, poignant, and truthful look at a phase of life that millions of women experience and how, with the help of good friends, being alone doesn't have to mean being lonely. The subject is handled with compassion, but I believe, also with a good helping of humor.

The book can be purchased on amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, ordered through any bookstore, or through my publisher's website http://www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/lifedeathanddoughnuts....

If you decide to read my book, I hope you enjoy it and will recommend it on your site. I hope the hurdles the women face in the book are familiar to you. Feel free to email me your comments and reactions at kkasdin@gmail.com. Thank you.