Cammy Sitting Shiva : A Novel

Crooked Lane Books

Cammy Sitting ShivaA Novel\nAuthor(s): Cary Gitter\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Penguin Random House Group, United States\nImprint: Alcove Press\nISBN-13: 9798892422789, 979-8892422789\nSynopsis\nWhen Cy Adler dies, it's a shock to everyone, especially his daughter, Cammy. Almost thirty, slightly aimless, and stuck in a basement apartment in Queens, she's forced to return to River Hill, her one-square-mile New Jersey hometown, to sit shiva. Cammy's fraught relationship with her mother, Beth, has never been easy. And now, with her beloved father gone, she would rather be anywhere but back in her childhood room, in a house filled with guests noshing on snacks and offering their condolences. So Cammy does whatever she can to make it through seven turbulent days of mourning. Amid getting stoned, reconnecting with her best friend and her high school crush, evading the rabbi, and spending a debauched night in Atlantic City, Cammy must reckon with her roots - with the place she fled for t.