My Old Man

From the New York Times bestselling author Amy Sohn one of New York Citys most provocative columnists comes a hip contemporary novel about sex sin and living in the same neighborhood as your parents. When twenty-six-year-old Rachel Block started rabbinical school she didnt think shed be dropping out after a semester and a half. But when a sick man dies under her counseling she realizes shes not cut out for the rabbinate. To make ends meet she takes a job as a bartender in her Brooklyn neighborhood--much to her parents chagrin. Its the quintessential quarter-life crisis compounded by the fact that shes still living just blocks from her childhood home. Then Rachel falls in love with Hank Powell an iconoclastic screenwriter twice her age. Suddenly shes reassessing her values her surroundings and everything shes ever thought about the right kind of relationship. Meanwhile her interactions with her father with whom shes always been close have become increasingly strange. Is he distraught that shes dropped out of school? Is he having his own midlife crisis? Somethings up...and Rachels increasingly convinced it might be her fathers libido. With Rachels own relationship getting wilder and weirder and her parents acting like teenagers it seems that everyone in Cobble Hill is going crazy. A fresh spin on Philip Roths Portnoys Complaint My Old Man is a black comedy about a dysfunctional Brooklyn family coming apart at the seams.