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An adopted thirteen-year-old with ADHD, Otto Fisher writes a vignette about a relative who was in the Holocaust, triggering a series of conflicts in his household, especially with his father, who's racist and anti-Semitic.

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An adopted thirteen-year-old with ADHD, Otto Fisher writes a vignette about a relative who was in the Holocaust, triggering a series of conflicts in his household, especially with his father, who's racist and anti-Semitic.
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Patty Friedmann's two latest books are a young adult novel, Taken Away [Tiny Satchel Press] and a literary e-novel titled Too Jewish [booksBnimble ]. Taken Away was a finalist for the ForeWord Small Press Book of the Year Award in 2011. She also is the author of six darkly comic literary novels set in New Orleans: The Exact Image of Mother [Viking Penguin 1991]; Eleanor Rushing [1998], Odds [2000], Secondhand Smoke [2002], Side Effects [2006], and A Little Bit Ruined [2007] [all hardback and paperback from Counterpoint except paper edition of Secondhand Smoke from Berkley Penguin]; as well as the humor book Too Smart to Be Rich [New Chapter Press 1988]. Her novels have been chosen as Barnes&Noble Discover Great New Writers, Borders Original Voices, and Book Sense 76 selections, and her humor book was syndicated by the New York Times. She has published reviews, essays, and short stories in Publishers Weekly, Newsweek, Oxford American, Speakeasy, Horn Gallery, Short Story, LA LIT, Brightleaf, New Orleans Review, and The Times-Picayune and in anthologies The Great New American Writers Cookbook, Above Ground, Christmas Stories from Louisiana, My New Orleans, New Orleans Noir, Life in the Wake, My Funny Valentine, and Something in the Water. Her stage pieces have been part of Native Tongues. In a special 2009 edition, Oxford American listed Secondhand Smoke with 29 titles that included Gone with the Wind, Deliverance, and A Lesson Before Dying as the greatest Underrated Southern Books. With slight interruptions for education and natural disasters, she always has lived in New Orleans.