Greetings from the Golden State
Subtitle: a novel
By: Leslie Brenner.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Henry Holt
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Fatherless families -- Fiction.; Mothers and sons -- Fiction.; Runaway husbands -- Fiction.; Jewish families -- Fiction.; Single mothers -- Fiction.; Boys -- Fiction.; West Hollywood (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Set against the backdrop of the cold war, Vietnam, and the Kennedy assassination, Andrew Kelbow's idyllic life in the San Fernando Valley - all swimming pools and tennis lessons, Technicolor and Formica, Sting-Ray bikes and Mexican cleaning ladies - is disrupted one day when his entertainment-lawyer father leaves his mother under a cherry tree in the Mojave desert.".

"How do the Kelbows handle such upheaval in the years that follow? In denial, mostly: they're pathologically happy-go-lucky, chronically unengaged. Diversions gastronomic, nuptial, seismic, musical, and cinematic, along with a healthy dose of illicit drug use, gambling, truancy, and political activism, keep the family functioning - barely.".

"As the Kelbow family pushes the fine line between the Eastern notion of living in the moment and the California hedonism of instant gratification, can sumultaneously over- and underachieving Andrew focus enough to imagine his way out of this lunatic paradise?"--BOOK JACKET.