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24 reviews
LAURA SHAINE CUNNINGHAM

BLOOMSBURY, 2006

The Marx Uncles' "A Night at the Soap Opera"
Like another reader, I was drawn to the unusual cover of this book--a sweet lil' girl's face superimposed over a faded shot of two older men--in these pedophiliactic times of Michael Jackson and Catholic priests, I assumed it was yet another sad story of abuse. Wronnnngg! This is so outrageously funny that you can almost laugh through the sad passages, while still appreciating the depth of ...

Dreams Of Rescue

38 reviews
Laura Shaine Cunningham

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2006

a STUNNER! I PULLED AN ALL NIGHTER TO READ IT!
WONDROUS ACCOUNT OF BATTERED BRIDE/MOVIE STAR WHO FIGHTS BACK. SMART AND CLEVERLY WRITTEN --ANY WOMAN WHO HAS EXPERIENCED THIS WILL RECOGNIZE THE ACCURACY OF THE MIND GAMES, THE DANGERS OF LOVING THE WRONG MAN, THE SUBTLETY OF REAL ABUSE. THE WEDDING CAKE FROZEN HOUSE & HISTORICAL SUB PLOT ARE ICINGS ON A DELICIOUS CAKE. I DEVOURED IT AND IT INCREASED MY SENSE OF SELF WORTH!

The Midnight Diary of Zoya Blume

1 review
Laura Shaine Cunningham, 2005

A sensitive, emotional, and unforgettable tale
Zoya's mom is going away, but she leaves with the soul-felt promise to return in seven days time. Yet 12-year-old Zoya feels terribly uneasy that she will never see her mom again. Her fears stem from being abandoned at the age of four in a Russian orphanage. But ever since Zoya's adoption, her new mom has filled Zoya's life with an unconditional love and a colorful laughter that have far ...

Nice Jewish Girls: Growing Up in America

3 reviews
Grace Paley, Laura Shaine Cunningham, ...

Plume, 1996

excellent colllection of heart felt personal stories.
Probably the best and most complete description of what it means to grow up Jewish and female in America during the twentieth century. I especially liked the very personal and well written account of a death in the family written by Jennifer Futernick

Beautiful Bodies

56 reviews
Laura Shaine Cunningham

Washington Square Press, 2002

Rejoices in the spirit of tomorrow
A very discussable sliver of six youthful-but-getting-old women. The technique Cunningham employs- treating each woman as if each were of equal importance, going through every heroine's internal monologue with delicate separation while chronologically moving forward, since each voice represents a different time in the evening, (no two voices represent the same hour in the evening) though they all ...

A Place in the Country

19 reviews
Laura Shaine Cunningham

ISIS Large Print Books, 2002

Bella New York! better than Provence or Tuscany!
I love to read about dream houses and people getting their wish fulfilled so this story of the poor little orphan from the bronx, who grew up in city apartments, seven people in three rooms, really moved me. The story is as sad as Angela's Ashes but funny as The Egg and I--It is a really fascinating mix of memoir and how a city person can live in the country. I could not put it down as Miss ...