Pretend Plumber

<p><strong>Sarassine Anfang</strong> is a precocious queer-curious Los Angeles teen who grows so fed up with her wealthy dysfunctional Jewish Hancock Park family that she decides to run away to her grandfather's Wilshire condo and become a plumber. But her chocolate eating grandmother and her distracted parents have other ideas. </p><p><br></p><p><strong><em>Pretend Plumber </em></strong>meshes the optimistic whimsy of the Oz books with a contemporary look at young privileged teens in Southern California. Meshing a comical commentary on the wealthy of Los Angeles magic and a story of a sincere young person's awakening sexual identities and political conscience this humorous adventure evolves into a serious story about responsibility loyalty and immigration justice. Pretend Plumber's heroine Sarassine is an unusual person; she is urban Jewish neurodivergent and probably bisexual. But her very uniqueness and her willingness to take a stand for the people she cares about make her lovable and ultimately admirable.</p>