I hok you no chainik when I recommend you read "
Farbissen" and "
Fakakt," the great new crime novels of
Jasmine Schwartz. Jasmine is an important and hilarious new voice in crime fiction -- and that's no shmontses! Her first two novels
"Farbissen: Melissa Morris and the Meaning of Money" and
"Fakakt: Melissa Morris and the Meaning of Sex" use Yiddish words for their titles. When you read the stories of Melissa Morris, a neurotic and fashion-obsessed New Yorker, you'll see why... And we'll be finding out here, too, as Jasmine is going to be doing an interview with us in a couple of days, taking a break from her troubles with a father who's remarrying, the musings of her "future ex-husband," and her ongoing struggle to enter the top 1 percent of US taxpayers, as you'll see from
her blog.
