I love Gootie
Subtitle: my grandmother's story
By: Max Apple
Publisher: Warner Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Apple, Max -- Family.; Apple, Max -- Childhood and youth.; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships.; Jews -- Michigan -- Social life and customs.; Grandmothers -- Michigan -- Biography.; Jewish women -- Michigan -- Biography.; Immigrants -- Michigan -- Biography.
Description: Max Apple describes what it was like to be an American boy raised by a Yiddish-speaking grandmother who approached everything, from acne to dating to career choices, from the perspective of a time and place long past. Here is Gootie coping with the frayed relationships within her own family and her less than happy marriage to the wildly determined and self-styled American, Rocky. Here is Gootie coping with anti-Semitic neighbors and outlandish business propositions.

And here is Gootie offering a hilarious, alternate-reality commentary on grandson Max's first teenage love affair. Conjuring up a great world around a tiny, muddy Lithuanian village, Gootie gave Max the ultimate gift of all: the art of storytelling itself.