Product Description

Sheila Katz, the irrepressible main character of A Departure from the Script, is a Jewish mother who helps her lesbian daughter plan a traditional Jewish lesbian wedding. What's more, she's doing it behind her husband's back! And if that isn't enough tsuris -- Yiddish for aggravation -- for one person, then what is she to make of her own new infatuation with a striking lesbian artist? Read the book and find out!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1905392 in Books
• Published on: 2002-04
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .1 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 328 pages

From Booklist
When her 25-year-old daughter, Jenny, announces that she is a lesbian and has met a woman she loves, Sheila Katz tries to take pleasure in her daughter's happiness but finds that her husband is unwilling to do the same. Dan is convinced that Jenny is only going through a phase and that once she meets the right man, she'll realize her mistake. Sheila finds the monthly PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) meetings extremely helpful, but after he attends one, Dan refuses to go back. When Jenny and Tamara ask for Sheila's support in planning (and helping to pay for) their traditional Jewish wedding, she further incurs Dan's anger by agreeing. At the same time, Sheila finds her own heretofore-unquestioned heterosexuality challenged when she realizes that she is strongly attracted to a lesbian artist. Schwab's touch is light, but her message is earnest (and only occasionally didactic). She raises difficult issues as she shows how families can support and accept their children who come out to them as a gay, lesbian, or bisexual. Nancy Pearl
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Elizabeth Millard, ForeWord Magazine, May 2002
"Humor...keeps the story zipping along....the larger issue of how to accept...one’s children should broaden its appeal."

Ravigo Zomana, The Virginia GayZette, May 2002
"Will have you laughing, teary-eyed, cheering. A must-have....Congratulations to Schwab for penning what is sure to become a classic."