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Book Review By A R Pickett
Life, Death and Bialys by Dylan Schaffer

As Flip Schaffer approached the end of his life from metastic cancer, he invited his semi-estranged adult son to join him in New York City at an upscale baking class designed for aspiring chefs. Mostly to humor his father, Dylan agreed. Seven months later the class is scheduled to begin and although he heads off to join his father, Dylan is not at all sure he is prepared for the experience.

Memoirs can be tricky. Eccentric pastry chefs; the crowded, hot and humid streets of New York; a less than glamorous hotel; memories of a mentally unstable mother and an absent father; a tenuous rebuilding of the ties between father and son, all interspersed with recipies for bread.


Plot & Themes
Family, ill Yes
Who? - Father
because he/she is - physically ill
Family, love Yes
Special relationship with - father
Period of greatest activity? - 1950+

Subject of Biography
Gender - Male
Profession/status:
Ethnicity - Jew
Nationality - American

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 3 ()
United States Yes
City? Yes
Century: - 1980's-Present

Writing Style
Book makes you feel? - thoughtful - like laughing
How much dialogue in bio? - significantly more descript than dialog
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