THE UNLEAVENED TRUTH

THE UNLEAVENED TRUTH
By Darryl A Forman
Published by Untreed Reads
http://www.untreedreads.com
Retail $3.99

“When people ask me why Jews are the chosen people, I shrug my shoulders and tell them, “Everyone else said no.” says Darryl Forman in her e-book , THE UNLEAVENED TRUTH. You don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy her take on the challenges and upsets life gives to us all. We’ve all been where her essays take us and we have all wondered at the same paradoxes in our lives. The difference is that while we might have cried or complained when life dealt us a body blow, Darryl Forman makes us laugh at the very foibles we thought were driving us crazy. She talks about her vision of the world and how she came to realize that the whole world wasn’t Jewish: “It wasn’t until I moved to California ….that I really started to notice the differences between ‘us’ and ‘them,’ ” she says. And one of the things she discovered as she grew up was that people are people and the men you date are men whether they are Jewish, Catholic or nothing at all.

Her publisher says, “Join Darryl in this rollicking collection of essays covering everything from growing up Jewish to surgery to a secret love for Jon Stewart (ok, not so secret anymore). You’ll encounter cruise ship travels gone awry and wry looks at relationships that have cruised. From dads that are rabbis to jobs that have gone bye-bye, Darryl puts her own unique spin on telling-it-like-it-is.” And indeed every topic tells it just like she sees it from the perspective of a single Jewish woman of a certain age. Like so many from her generation, Darryl grew up loving baseball, avoiding relatives, working like crazy and trying to find a good man. She evidently found many loves, but not The Perfect One. Her discussion of internet dating and a chance coupling on a cruise ship that ended up becoming a seven year long distance relationship are choice.

This book touches on the alarming effect of coming to terms with an aging body, the determination to live life to the fullest despite all the circumstances that get in the way and how to deal with aches and pains that happen when your body decides it has had enough She ends the book with a “Dis-jointed Reader’s Guide” that reminds us that much of the content has been fictionalized but, as she says, “Who cares? A laugh is a laugh, and if it didn’t happen to her, it coulda happened to you.”

This is good casual reading, wonderful if you need a laugh and even better if you want to read about someone who has been there, done that and lived to joke about the tale.