Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde: A True Story Audiobook

Quotes

• “Fascinating and engrossing, reading Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde is like looking into the windows of compelling people you want to both meet and love. By the end of the book you will do just that.”

  — Jenny Lawson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Let’s Pretend This Never Happened

• “Rebecca Dana’s funny, juicy memoir of her Brooklyn year with a most original housemate goes down like a terrific New York cocktail—with some sweetness, a snappy twist of sublime, and plenty of heart.”

  — Julie Metz, New York Times bestselling author of Perfection

• “Dana comes off as a from-the-suburbs Holden Caulfield, a brainy Mary Tyler Moore, or a very dressed-down Carrie Bradshaw. She’s that irresistible.”

  — Amazon.com, editorial review

• “I’m kvelling!! Rebecca Dana’s brilliant memoir touchingly and daringly juxtaposes the mysterious world of Orthodox Jewry with the even more mysterious world of fashion. I was amused and ver clempt, all at the same time.”

  — Simon Doonan, author of Gay Men Don’t Get Fat

• “Rebecca Dana’s story is a lot like New York City—bustling and busy, packed with Jews and jobs, faith and friendship, accident and ambition. With Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde, Dana joins the ranks of women who have come to New York, forged identities on their own alongside improbable allies, and lived to tell the tale with wit and grace.”

  — Rebecca Traister, author of Big Girls Don’t Cry

• “Suffused with shimmering prose and a kick-ass spirit, Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde is a brave and brilliant New York coming-of-age odyssey. With an eye for the damning detail and an ear for the heart-soaring quote, Rebecca Dana has delivered a devilishly funny true story brimming with pathos, oddball characters, and beautiful revelations. I haven’t enjoyed a memoir this much in years.”

  — Don Van Natta, Jr., author of Wonder Girl

• “Dana...turns a nine-month stint in Brooklyn into a thoughtful, archly funny meditation on what it means to want a certain kind of life, achieve it, and then feel patently uncomfortable in it, noting, ‘I have lived my entire life according to established story lines, even when they aren’t true.’ Explorations of her own Judaism are nicely placed against the backdrop of the Lubavitcher community.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “Readers will find Dana’s depiction of Lubavitch life quite accessible...Finding nourishment, kosher-style, clever chick lit expands its usual boundaries.”

  — Kirkus Reviews