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Lipshitz 6 or Two Angry Blondes
T. Cooper
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"I read this novel, Lipshitz 6, or Two Angry Blondes, by T Cooper, because I met the author. I was at a reading in San Francisco, and she was there. T Cooper is a woman, a lesbian, as a matter of fact, Jewish, too, I believe, as am I. Well, I'm not a lesbian, but I'm Jewish. So I met her at a read from it, sounded like fun.
It's hard to say what this novel's about, I mean only because about so much. It's long, it's rich, it's a lot to it. It's a good read, though. It's not, I was like, I got very caught up in it.
It's about a Jewish family that emigrates from Russia to America at the turn of the century, which my grandparents did as well, so I could relate to that; and it's about their experiences assimilating to America, and making their way. Sort of the big thing, the big story that happens to them is when they're at Ellis Island, I guess they have three kids, I believe, three or four, their blonde son, who doesn't look Jewish at all, their blonde son somehow gets separated from them and he's never found. They had no idea what happened to him. So sort of that tragedy that besets the family that they're coping with and dealing with.
One of their sons turns out to be gay, and what's that like; another son gets killed in World War II. So a lot of stuff happens to this family. I guess why it's sort of a post-modern novel is that the last third of the novel, the author, T Cooper enters as a character. She's part of the family; she's like the grandchild of the characters we were reading about at the beginning. And she is a Vanilla Ice impersonator hoping to aspire to bigger and better things.
What I liked best about reading Lipshitz 6 was kind of the surprising turns that the story takes and just the believability of the family, and the ___________ the kind of unusual things that happen and how they cope with them. I want to give T Cooper's novel, Lipshitz 6 or Two Angry Blondes, four stars."
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