Love You a Latke
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
"Nothing short of transcendent."—New York Times
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Love comes home for the challah-days in this sparkling romance.
Snow is falling, holiday lights are twinkling, and Abby Cohen is pissed. For one thing, her most annoying customer, Seth, has been coming into her café every morning with his sunshiny attitude, determined to break down her carefully constructed emotional walls. And, as the only Jew on the tourism board of her Vermont town, Abby's been charged with planning their fledgling Hanukkah festival. Unfortunately, the local vendors don’t understand that the story of Hanukkah cannot be told with light-up plastic figures from the Nativity scene, even if the Three Wise Men wear yarmulkes.
Desperate for support, Abby puts out a call for help online and discovers she was wrong about being the only Jew within a hundred miles. There's one other: Seth.
As it turns out, Seth’s parents have been badgering him to bring a Nice Jewish Girlfriend home to New York City for Hanukkah, and if Abby can survive his incessant, irritatingly handsome smiles, he’ll introduce her to all the vendors she needs to make the festival a success. But over latkes, doughnuts, and winter adventures in Manhattan, Abby begins to realize that her fake boyfriend and his family might just be igniting a flame in her own guarded heart.
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Elliot (Best Served Hot) charms in this holiday romance starring Abby Cohen, who moved from the Bronx to rural Vermont for a guy and stayed after the break up because she loved the peace and quiet. The only thing regularly disrupting the calm is Seth, an overly cheerful regular at Abby's coffee shop. When the town's tourism board ropes Abbey into planning its first ever Hanukkah festival, she's disappointed by the local vendors, who think dressing their Christmas displays up with blue and white lights is enough. Though she's not super religious, she's determined to offer an authentic experience, so she turns to Seth, and his many connections, for help. In exchange, she agrees to celebrate Hanukkah with him and his parents on New York's Upper West Side, posing as his "nice Jewish girl friend." The fake relationship brings plenty of fun, and the backdrops of both a quaint small town and the big city during the holidays adds festive appeal. As Elliot delves more into her protagonist's backstory, she thoughtfully describes the casual antisemitism Abbey has faced, adding some heft to the otherwise frothy plot. This is a keeper.
