The Frumkiss Family Business - Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

"Wex is as irreverent and humorous, [and] he has his own style. . . . Breathtaking. It's so subtle you don't see what's coming until . . . all of a sudden something beautiful appears."
"-- Winnipeg Free Press"

"[Wex has] certainly nailed the Borscht Belt humour. . . . A lively and entertaining fictional debut."
""-- "Edmonton Journal"

"A hilarious portrait of Jewish life in Toronto . . . and a new hero for Yiddish literature, one who, even while portraying that most tragic of birds, the dodo, represents not the extinction of Yiddish culture, but its tenacity."
""-- "The Globe and Mail"

"[Wex] sets out to do for Toronto's Jews what Mordecai Richler's fictions did for Montreal's and Philip Roth's for Newark's: paint their portraits so acutely, so knowingly, so as to inspire their apoplectic rage."
"-- Tablet
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"A good portion of the reading world, including the 2010 Booker Prize jury, finds Harold Jacobson's The Finkler Question . . . hilarious -- I found it tedious. . . . However funny or unfunny Jacobson's book may be (maybe it just didn't hit my funny bone), this Canadian-authored entry into the world of Yiddish humour had me chuckling, laughing and sometimes roaring from start to finish. . . . If you are looking for some escapist reading that is totally irreverant and very, very funny, you could do a lot worse than picking up a copy of Wex's book."
"--" KevinfromCanada.wordpress.com
"From the Hardcover edition."

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"Wex is as irreverent and humorous, [and] he has his own style. . . . Breathtaking. It's so subtle you don't see what's coming until . . . all of a sudden something beautiful appears."
"-- Winnipeg Free Press"
"[Wex has] certainly nailed the Borscht Belt humour. . . . A lively and entertaining fictional debut."
""-- "Edmonton Journal"
"A hilarious portrait of Jewish life in Toronto . . . and a new hero for Yiddish literature, one who, even while portraying that most tragic of birds, the dodo, represents not the extinction of Yiddish culture, but its tenacity."
""-- "The Globe and Mail"
"[Wex] sets out to do for Toronto's Jews what Mordecai Richler's fictions did for Montreal's and Philip Roth's for Newark's: paint their portraits so acutely, so knowingly, so as to inspire their apoplectic rage."
"-- Tablet
"
"A good portion of the reading world, including the 2010 Booker Prize jury, finds Harold Jacobson's The Finkler Question . . . hilarious -- I found it tedious. . . . However funny or unfunny Jacobson's book may be (maybe it just didn't hit my funny bone), this Canadian-authored entry into the world of Yiddish humour had me chuckling, laughing and sometimes roaring from start to finish. . . . If you are looking for some escapist reading that is totally irreverant and very, very funny, you could do a lot worse than picking up a copy of Wex's book."
"--" KevinfromCanada.wordpress.com

"From the Hardcover edition."

MICHAEL WEX was born in Lethbridge, Alberta. The family moved first to Calgary, and then to Toronto, where they lived in Toronto's Bathurst Manor before migrating a few blocks north to Bathurst Village. Wex is the author of two works of fiction, Shlepping the Exile and The Adventures of Micah Mushmelon, Boy Talmudist, and three works of non-fiction: Born to Kvetch; Just Say Nu; and How to Be a Mentsh (and Not a Shmuck). He is also well known as a speaker on matters relating to Yiddish language and culture and more general aspects of Judaism. He lives in Toronto with his wife and daughter.