When the matriarch of the least successful Jewish family in America gets tired of their misfortune, she consults mystical texts for help.Determined that their next grandchild will be a genius who changes their fortunes, and convinced that no one in her clan is smart enough to raise a genius by themselves, she decides that the child will be passed from household to household to gain their collective wisdom.A picaresque romp set in 1950's Brooklyn, Cousins' Club is a delightful escape filled with unusual events, radical rogues, cockeyed intellectuals and pie-eyed strivers.SEMI-FINALIST - 2017 Booklife Prize (Fiction) His award-winning short stories and poems have appeared in numerous journals. He was the subject of the cover story for Inner Circle Writers' Magazine, July 2020 and Author of the Month at Spillwords, March 2020. He has an M.A. in Creative Writing from NYU where he studied with Thomas Keneally, E. L. Doctorow, and Peter Carey.Among the writers he most admires are Saul Bellow, Laurence Sterne, Flannery O' Connor, Delmore Schwartz, and Isaac Bashevis Singer.He and his wife have visited over 45 countries and returned from most of them.He is currently working on a satiric novel about business.
