The Card Party and Other Stories is a collection of three novellas, tales of raucous, feisty, outrageous older Jewish women. Rosie, Martha and Minke—tale spinners, weavers of magic—who, although shadowed by traumas of the past and conflicts of the present, remain exuberant in their disregard of convention and age as they seize life with a sly wit and unrestrained force, passion and joy.
“Post-war writers like Isaac Bashevis Singer and Chaim Grade dedicated their fiction to bringing their dead to life. In the same pursuit, Tom Perlmutter of the next generation introduces a marvelous covey of Hungarian Jewish women who carried their murdered dead within them into their new Canadian life knowing that as “survivors” they must also die, but not before leaving an indelible imprint on their sons—and through them on the marvel of fiction. These haunted women were just waiting to amuse, inspire, and haunt us. Who said that talented writers ought to stay in their own lane?”
—-Ruth Wisse, author of The Schlemiel as a Modern Hero
“I think Perlmutter’s moral center, his respect and admiration for these characters, for, it seems, these women’s voices, is great and moving. It has all the things I admire, compassion, humor, historical and political vision, and so on. Perlmutter seems to have turned to fiction with an abiding love for the things it is good for. All I can do is note the wisdom and patience and fully formed love of literature here.”
—-Rick Moody, author of The Ice Storm
Tom Perlmutter was born in Sárospatak, Hungary and was brought up in Montreal, Canada. He has worked as a writer and documentary filmmaker in both England and Canada.
ISBN: 978-1-962931-39-7, EPUB ISBN: 978-1-962931-65-6, LCCN: 2025906881. Softcover, 242 pages. $19.95. Forthcoming September 8.
The Card Party and Other Stories is a collection of three novellas, tales of raucous, feisty, outrageous older Jewish women. Rosie, Martha and Minke—tale spinners, weavers of magic—who, although shadowed by traumas of the past and conflicts of the present, remain exuberant in their disregard of convention and age as they seize life with a sly wit and unrestrained force, passion and joy.
“Post-war writers like Isaac Bashevis Singer and Chaim Grade dedicated their fiction to bringing their dead to life. In the same pursuit, Tom Perlmutter of the next generation introduces a marvelous covey of Hungarian Jewish women who carried their murdered dead within them into their new Canadian life knowing that as “survivors” they must also die, but not before leaving an indelible imprint on their sons—and through them on the marvel of fiction. These haunted women were just waiting to amuse, inspire, and haunt us. Who said that talented writers ought to stay in their own lane?”
—-Ruth Wisse, author of The Schlemiel as a Modern Hero
“I think Perlmutter’s moral center, his respect and admiration for these characters, for, it seems, these women’s voices, is great and moving. It has all the things I admire, compassion, humor, historical and political vision, and so on. Perlmutter seems to have turned to fiction with an abiding love for the things it is good for. All I can do is note the wisdom and patience and fully formed love of literature here.”
—-Rick Moody, author of The Ice Storm
Tom Perlmutter was born in Sárospatak, Hungary and was brought up in Montreal, Canada. He has worked as a writer and documentary filmmaker in both England and Canada.
ISBN: 978-1-962931-39-7, EPUB ISBN: 978-1-962931-65-6, LCCN: 2025906881. Softcover, 242 pages. $19.95. Forthcoming September 8.
