The Exact Image of Mother

by Patty Friedmann

Darby Cooper, the irrepressible survivor of Jewish guilt, Holocaust memories, and modern romance, narrates this dark comedy, set in Jewish New Orleans, about the complex relationships between mothers and daughters, love and betrayal, death and renewal

227 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1991

About the author

Patty Friedmann is a darkly comic New Orleans novelist whose dozen works include the Amazon perennial bestseller Too Jewish and the celebrated Secondhand Smoke. Her essays, short stories, and reviews have appeared in Newsweek, Publishers Weekly, New Orleans Noir, Short Story, and Oxford American, among other places. A novel titled An Organized Panic and a collection of her stories titled Where Do They All Come From are 2017 releases. Patty has had two husbands, two children, and three grandchildren, and currently lives with an annoying philodendron.

Reviews

[Wendy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I knew I was going to like this book before I even started reading it but I never knew how much I would end up relating with the people and locations in it. (Just to mention a few, the street Darby lives on (Tchoupitoulas) where on Mardi Gras morning the truck parades line up is the same place and street where my grandmother lived when I was a kid and I spent my childhood there. Then in the epilogue the restaurant she eats at (Domilise's) is the po boy shop that my Aunt Dot owns.) I couldn't have loved this book more. I don't expect other people to feel the same way about this book as I do but it brought back so many wonderful memories for me. Thank you once again for a fantastic and wonderful New Orleans novel Mrs. Friedmann! I'm always on the lookout for your next book.