Raining Delusions: A Catskills Novel

by Michael Gold

Raining Delusions is a work of fictionalized stories woven together about those who grew up in a tiny community in The Catskills, and how they related to families, friends, lovers, life’s experiences, obstacles and fate.Some of the events are based on memories, fragments of information, really of village life and the eccentric way people communicated with one another, the Borscht Belt way. They cover the gamut of raw obscenities, conflict, digs, spontaneous humor, passion, grief, revenge, war, politics, compassion, sarcasm, depression, celebration and love, spanning four generations of larger than life characters, of emotional cyclones, hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes, tornados, firestorms and tsunamis, all hitting you at once. It’s not for the weak of heart.

249 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 6, 2019

Reviews

[Lizz Goldstein · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not particularly well written, and really poorly edited, it was nonetheless a fun read of cute Ashkenazi-American nostalgia. I laughed out loud at parts and saw reflections of my older relatives in the characters.