"Hilarious . . . Lerman proves herself mistress not only of side-splitting one-liners but also of pregnant perceptions about faith and virtue" ( Publishers Weekly).From a novelist whose characters have ranged from ancient deities to suburban housewives to Eleanor Roosevelt, God's Ear is the story of a rabbi who opens his heart to God, only to have every shnorrer in his congregation fill it with pain.Yussel Fetner's ancestors had been such ...

The novel that Gloria Steinem called "the feminist Jekyll-and-Hyde of our time―and we recognize the monster in ourselves while we're laughing."Outrageous and outrageously funny, The Girl That He Marries is the story of Stephanie―nearly thirty and still single, a bright and attractive young woman with an unerring instinct for unmarriageable men and a nagging fear she's going to grow old alone. Enter Richard: urbane, ambitious, and eminently marriageable. Th...

From the award-winning author of God's Ear: A "wildly funny, achingly spiritual, profoundly Jewish and feminist" satire of religion and gender politics ( The New York Times Book Review).Call Me Ishtar is the outrageous manifesto of a goddess determined to right the wrongs of the three-thousand-year-old patriarchy. She is Ishtar: Mother Goddess, Queen of Heaven, Angel of Death, and Whore of Babylon, and, returning to earth in this most rec...