Goy Crazy

by Melissa Schorr

Overview

Rachel Lowenstein can't help it. She's got a massive crush on a goy: Luke Christensen, the gorgeous star of the basketball team at St. Joseph's prep.

But as the name implies, he's not exactly in Rachel's tribe. Rachel just knows her parents would never approve.

Then Rachel's Jewish grandmother issues a stern edict––"Don't go with the goyim!"-– sealing Rachel's fate and presenting her with a serious dilemma.

Everyone's got an opinion--from her annoying neighbor Howard to her newly social-climbing best friend. Should Rachel follow her heart and turn her back on her faith? Or should she heed her family's advice and try and find a nice Jewish boy?

With an unforgettable cast of characters and razor-sharp wit, Melissa Schorr's debut novel is an engaging comedy about a girl's decision to go goy crazy.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012208569
Publisher:	Hyperion
Publication date:	03/01/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	208 KB

About the Author

Melissa Schorr, the author of the comedic young adult novel GOY CRAZY, is a widely published freelance journalist currently living outside Boston.

As a native New Yorker, she grew up in the Riverdale section of the Bronx and attended the Bronx High School of Science and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism outside of Chicago. Upon graduating, she returned to New York and began her publishing career at Working Woman and GQ magazines.

While working in the editorial department at GQ, she proposed a humorous essay called “The Joys of Goys,” about her personal experience dating non-Jewish men. That generated national attention from angry rabbis to admiring prison inmates (as well as her agent), and served as the inspiration for her novel, about a Jewish girl who falls for a Catholic boy.

She has served as a stringer for People magazine, a columnist for the Las Vegas Sun, a features reporter for the Oakland Tribune, and an editor at the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine.

Her work has also appeared in more than 20 publications, including Glamour, Self, Allure, Marie Claire, Bride’s, Baby Talk, Working Mother, In Style, Esquire, San Francisco, National Geographic Traveler, Wired magazine, as well as newspapers such as the Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal and the San Jose Mercury News, and websites including Lifetimetv.com, Reuters Health and WebMD.

She was awarded a 2000 Knight Science Journalism Fellowship from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.

Schorr currently lives outside Boston, Mass., with her husband, her daughters and her dog, Bailey.

Editorial Reviews

Schorr's debut novel successfully combines Jewish values with snappy narration, much like Sarah Darer Littman's Confessions of a Closet Catholic. Peer pressures are realistically portrayed as Rachel navigates the politics of popularity. Her fresh and witty voice is injected with such humor that readers will be drawn into the tale and will agonize along with her.

School Library Journal - Erin Schirota

Dialogue is wry and funny, and Rachel, smart and sensitive, is at that familiar place where the opinions of peers, especially boys, are tough to ignore. Even readers who aren't Jewish will recognize Rachel's struggle to find the right path––and the right boy––for herself.

Booklist - Stephanie Zvirin

Chock-full of laugh-out-loud irreverence. Her comically overblown hysteria keeps pages turning for every girl who's ever wanted an off-limits boy.

The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books - Karen Coats