When We Were Bad (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780547085920)

By all outward appearances, the Rubins are the perfect family: brilliant, successful, enviably close-knit. Then an event of great joy and celebration -- the marriage of the eldest son -- urns to chaos when the groom jilts his bride and runs off with a married woman. It's a shock to everyone in their small Jewish community, most of all to matriarch Claudia, a successful rabbi. 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. All four adult Rubin children and their parents ultimately must come to terms with their own inner desires and identities. When We Were Bad gives a warm, poignant, and honest portrayal of a family in crisis, in love, in denial, and, ultimately, in luck.


Author: Charlotte Mendelson
ISBN-10: 0547085923
ISBN-13: 9780547085920
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2008
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.70h x 4.90w x 0.90d