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The 1980’s: it’s the time of Dungeons & Dragons, banana clips, and Atari. Jonathan Schwartz is growing up in a family like no other. His sisters, Nadia, the dark genius, and Olivia, the gorgeous tease and temptress, manipulate Jon and his friends for their own entertainment. And his Holocaust survivor grandparents? Their coping techniques are beyond embarrassing. A disastrous visit to Jon’s class by his grandmother unhinges his famous father, setting off a chain of events that threatens to send the dysfunctional Schwartz clan up in flames once and for all. Fun & Games is a heartbreaking and hilarious story of faith, family secrets, betrayal, and loss—but it’s also a tale of friendship, love, and side-splitting shenanigans.
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David Michael Slater is an acclaimed author of books for children, teens, and adults. His work includes Cheese Louise!, The Bored Book, The Boy & the Book, and the controversial teen series, Forbidden Books, which is being developed for film by Producer Kevin Bannerman (Lion King). David teaches in Reno, Nevada, where he lives with his wife and son.
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"David Michael Slater's 1980s coming-of-age story fuses intense family dysfunction with literary intelligence. Mr. Slater throws all kinds of crazy against the wall--and not only does it stick, it works brilliantly...Fans of David Sedaris, Jenny Lawson, and Augusten Burroughs will crown David Michael Slater their new king." - THE NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS
"A Holocaust-survivor grandmother who makes macabre jokes. A famous fatherwhose anti-religious books attract sexually-desperate groupies. Sadisticsisters, an alcoholic mother, an unusually high body count for a novel thisfunny, and a plot that encompasses Hebrew school, porn producer thugs and afaltering orgy for literary deconstructionists without missing a beat. Even more remarkable, David Michael Slater's Fun and Games is a male coming-of-age storythat doesn't rely on shock humor or gratuitous offense for chuckles-it'shilarious...The funniest book about growing up Jewish since Portnoy's Complaint." -Judith Basya, HEEB MAGAZINE Literary Editor
"Slater has painted an intimate and memorable family portrait." - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"A Holocaust-survivor grandmother who makes macabre jokes. A famous fatherwhose anti-religious books attract sexually-desperate groupies. Sadisticsisters, an alcoholic mother, an unusually high body count for a novel thisfunny, and a plot that encompasses Hebrew school, porn producer thugs and afaltering orgy for literary deconstructionists without missing a beat. Even more remarkable, David Michael Slater's Fun and Games is a male coming-of-age storythat doesn't rely on shock humor or gratuitous offense for chuckles-it'shilarious...The funniest book about growing up Jewish since Portnoy's Complaint." -Judith Basya, HEEB MAGAZINE Literary Editor
"Slater has painted an intimate and memorable family portrait." - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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- PublisherLibrary Tales Publishing, Incorporated
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 0692779086
- ISBN 13 9780692779088
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages180
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