SO TALENTLY, MY CHILDREN

by Edna Sheklow ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

...so sweetly flow the matzos and the jokes. ""Nobody has a mother like mine"" and this playwright's mother really upstaged life with her eleven children, her wit and no-nonsense practicality. ""The wandering Jews"" were the talk of every-place they went with their boisterous, friendly approach. Mama was always moving the entire family right out from under papa. One time, during the depression, she moved them to the country to a combination filling station/farm sans electricity, plumbing, etc. (On this occasion she misadvisedly told a neighbor to rent out part of his property...the Federal Narcotics Squad arrived some months later.) Then there was the time she was caught slipping bread to a favorite on Passover; the time she jarred sister Dorothy out of a lethargy and turned her into a compulsive interior decorator/efficiency expert to the dismay of the rest of the troupe. The writing is smooth (perhaps nostalgia has prompted Miss Sheklow to doctor up a few of the scenes but the result is quite funny) and who couldn't help but love the lady who recently said on her 77th birthday: ""Children...You will just have to face the facts. Your mother isn't going to stay young forever."" A slender, tender, funny volume.

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Publisher: World

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1966

Categories: NONFICTION