01649cam a2200301 i 4500 1606849762 TxAuBib 20240925120000.0 210915s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780778312130 0778312135 9780778311584 0778311589 TxAuBib rda Meltzer, Jean, author. The matzah ball / Jean Meltzer. Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Mira, [2021] 395 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Publisher Annotation: Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt is a nice Jewish girl with a shameful secret: she loves Christmas. For a decade she's hidden her career as a Christmas romance novelist from her family. Her talent has made her a bestseller even as her chronic illness has always kept the kind of love she writes about out of reach. But when her diversity-conscious publisher insists she write a Hanukkah romance, her well of inspiration suddenly runs dry. Hanukkah's not magical. It's not merry. It's not Christmas. Desperate not to lose her contract, Rachel's determined to find her muse at the Matzah Ball, a Jewish music celebration on the last night of Hanukkah, even if it means working with her summer camp archenemy-Jacob Greenberg... DEBUT NOVEL 336pp., 10K. 20240925. Jewish novelists Fiction. Hanukkah Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. TXKIP