The Matchmaker Loses by a Nose

<p>This book is a collection of 39 short stories and essays that will enlighten you about the<br />author's personal life his family's past and other hilarious adventures. The contents<br />of the book are divided into seven sections with the first section containing short<br />stories about his father David Gellis an immigrant European tailor. The second<br />section describes various stages of his sister Barbara's life who somehow inherited<br />the 'wild' gene and constantly got herself into trouble. The section about the author's<br />past covers his chaotic life as a child living in a small house behind the family dry<br />cleaning establishment his years of medical school and residency and unusual events<br />during his private practice of plastic surgery. Farcical times with his young friends are<br />recreated. Later in life even while practicing medicine Dr. Gellis would substitute<br />teach in the public school system creating hilarious stories. Narratives describing his<br />Brooklyn New York beginnings including family and friends are brought to light in<br />the fourth chapter that showcase his grandfather a Kosher butcher and the author's<br />mother Rose a very defiant 4-year-old. Within the fift h section are stories of events in<br />Flint Michigan especially an unusual encounter with the Detroit Mafia's The Purple<br />Gang in the 1930's. Very interesting chance meetings the author had with famous<br />athletes Muhammad Ali and Tiger Woods are covered in the sixth section. Finally<br />on an academic level the author discusses his favorite sayings and idioms with their<br />origins along with a poem/prayer called Family. There is obviously something for<br />everyone in this entertaining collection of short stories.</p>