Managing Bubbie is Lazegas first foray into creative nonfiction. Anyone who savors a soft heart with a sharp funny bone will laugh, cry, and commiserate with the confounded family who must manage their beloved, impossible Bubbie. Author Russel Lazega is a lawyer living in North Miami Beach, Florida. A tapestry of an American family in the 1980s, Managing Bubbie also revisits the Holocaust period to mine the love, hope, and humor that emerged from the deepest despair. The lighter tone of these episodes was a welcome relief from the tension of the.

As they scramble for an acceptable assisted living facility and struggle to get her medication in line, they discover the difficulties of controlling a woman who time and again eluded catastrophe by refusing to be told what to do. By contrast, Managing Bubbie braids the family history and personal memoir together, interspersing the dramatic reconstruction of Leas flight across Europe with broad-humored anecdotes from the 1980s that invite us to share Lazegas love for his feisty grandmother. Managing Bubbie is the heartrending, hilarious family memoir by Russel Lazega that recounts the frequently hectic, ever-exhausting trials of one Jewish family in Miami Beach as they try to oversee the care of the elderly, unmanageable Lea Lazega. But how do you manage an aging, immutably stubborn Holocaust survivor who has risen above the squalor of Poland's ghettos fled across the war-torn German wilderness and survived the winter-ravaged Pyrenees alone on foot with three children? You probably don't. Mostly they want to ensure that their matriarch's twilight years are spent in comfort, safety, and serenity. Managing Bubbie Russel Lazega CreateSpace (Feb 5, 2015) Softcover 12.95 (244pp) 978-1-4991-2629-7 This biography honors the realities of hardship in the life of a Holocaust survivor while still drawing reasons for hope. Her devoted family only wants the best for their Bubbie.

A multi-cast audio book featuring Tony and Golden Globe winner Linda Lavin, The Love Boat's Gavin Macleod, Tony and Emmy nominated Lainie Kazan, The Nanny's Renée Taylor, Grammy nominated Judy Tenuta and many more. Listen to Managing Bubbie by Russel Lazega available from Rakuten Kobo.

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