Mom and Mama are still home, but the house is silent. I send her an emoji kiss face, then step out of my car, tug my coat tight, and hurry inside. She replies: Rough! I’ll drive you home later I text back: Hopefully soon! Barbra won’t start Cheyenne has already been folding clothes at the Gap for an hour, and I’m supposed to be at Once Upon, the independent bookstore I work at, in twenty minutes. The mall opens earlier than usual this week for the Christmas rush. My phone buzzes with a text from Cheyenne: I just folded my 75th sweater of the morning. It’s a freezing December morning, and as I exhale, I can see my frosted breath. The grinding sound is worse this time, metallic shrieking. Will you start for me? Pretty please? Okay, ready?”
“Barbra, sweetie.” I place my hand on her dashboard and rub in soothing circles. “Ugh!” I call out, and then plead with my car. Be sure to scroll down to read the sneak peek of the first two chapters before the book is published on September 1, 2020.īarbra Streisand grinds and grinds before sputtering to a stop. Here’s the exclusive first look at the cover of Recommended for You, illustrated by Maggie Cole.
But as the competition intensifies, Jake and Shoshanna realize they might be more on the same page than either expects…
Jake may be cute (really cute), and he may be an eligible Jewish single (hard to find South of Atlanta), but he’s also the enemy, and Shoshanna is ready to take him down. (He doesn’t even read!) But somehow his sales start to rival hers. Jake is an affront to everything Shoshanna stands for. The only person standing in her way? New hire Jake Kaplan. When her boss announces a holiday bonus to the person who sells the most books, Shoshanna is ready to prove herself. Pitched as To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before meets You’ve Got Mail with a decidedly Jewy twist, Recommended for You, out this September, tells the story of Shoshanna Greenberg, a bookseller at her favorite local bookstore, Once Upon. “As a Jewish teen, I rarely saw myself reflected in the stories I read,” Laura Silverman wrote for Alma earlier this year, “which is the main reason I write Jewish characters in my books now.” Silverman is the author of two YA novels - Girl out of Waterand You Asked for Perfect- as co-edited an anthology of Jewish stories called It’s a Whole Spiel. And we are incredibly excited to reveal the cover of her next novel, Recommended for You.
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