![]() ![]() But as the plodding eldest, Leo, leaves the altar to run off with his mistress, the fault lines are exposed: next-eldest Frances eventually admits to her despair about her dutiful marriage and her lack of maternal feeling, and even colorless Norman turns out to have a guilty secret. Claudia seems to have molded nebbishy husband Norman and their four children into the perfect family. ![]() ![]() With humor and panache, British writer Mendelson ( Love in Idleness) presents London's Rubin clan, presided over by matriarch Claudia, a brilliant, charismatic London rabbi blessed with zaftig curves and a will of steel. When We Were Bad gives a warm, poignant, and honest portrayal of a family in crisis, in love, in denial, and, ultimately, in luck. All four adult Rubin children and their parents ultimately must come to terms with their own inner desires and identities. In the wake of this one defiant act, the floodgates to a ruinous wave of gossip are opened, and the secrets that the Rubins have been keeping from one another begin to spill forth. It’s a shock to everyone in their small Jewish community, most of all to matriarch Claudia, a successful rabbi. Then an event of great joy and celebrationthe marriage of the eldest sonurns to chaos when the groom jilts his bride and runs off with a married woman. By all outward appearances, the Rubins are the perfect family: brilliant, successful, enviably close-knit. ![]()
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