Overview

Her devoted family only wants the best for their Bubbie. Mostly they want to ensure that their matriarch's twilight years are spent in comfort, safety, and serenity. But how do you manage an aging, immutably stubborn Holocaust survivor who has risen above the squalor of Poland's ghettos; fled across the war-torn German wilderness; and survived the winter-ravaged Pyrenees alone on foot with three children? You probably don't. Managing Bubbie is the heartrending, hilarious family memoir by Russel Lazega that recounts the frequently hectic, ever-exhausting trials of one Jewish family in Miami Beach as they try to oversee the care of the elderly, unmanageable Lea Lazega. As they scramble for an acceptable assisted living facility and struggle to get her medication in line, they discover the difficulties of controlling a woman who time and again eluded catastrophe by refusing to be told what to do. A tapestry of an American family in the 1980s, Managing Bubbie also revisits the Holocaust period to mine the love, hope, and humor that emerged from the deepest despair. Anyone who savors a soft heart with a sharp funny bone will laugh, cry, and commiserate with the confounded family who must manage their beloved, impossible Bubbie.

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"- ""A successful twofer: a moving ode to a beloved family matriarch and a valuable reminder about the role of history in shaping even seemingly ordinary lives.""-- Kirkus Independent Review - ""In the uncompromising, larger-than-life Bubbie, her family has their hands -- as well as their hearts -- full. Her stirring story is one that should be widely shared."" - BlueInk Review (starred review) - ""A book that is emotional, hysterical, and a downright must-read. In a world that only allows 5 stars, Bubbie deserves a million. Oy!"" -- Feathered Quill Book Review - ""Oy Vey! 'Managing Bubbie' is a great true story."" -- Aventura News - ""Lazega tells his Bubbie's story with compassion, humor and dead on accuracy"" -- Eyes on News - "" Any who want to be moved by their biographical reading; to feel part of a family circle and part of past and present Jewish worlds abroad and in America, will find Managing Bubbie a powerful read."" - D. Donovan, Midwest Book Review, Sr. Rvwr. -- ""[A] heartwarming and hysterical memoir"" - Heather Osborne, Readers Favorite -- ""[R]emarkably engaging"" - U.S. Review of Books (Recommended read) -- ""MANAGING BUBBIE provides an interesting and inspiring tribute..."" Five Stars -- IndieReader (Named to IndieReader's Best 56 Self-Pub Books of 2015) -- ""Managing Bubbie is more than a book about sweet stories from a Yiddish grandmother who will make you laugh and wish someone loved you as much. It is an epic piece of history caught in the pages of a loving book, which will surely touch your heart."" -- Portland Book Review - ""[Y]ou just can't turn the pages and not laugh"" -- Boomer Times - ""[R]emarkably engaging"" -- U.S. Review of Books (Recommended Read) -- ""Russell Lazega brilliantly developed the character of his Bubbie as well as the stunning and historical world she lived in. Her adventures were so inspiring while retaining such an historical touch that I could not put the book down. I felt I was back again with my own Bubbie, all between the covers of 'Managing Bubbie.'"" -- George Kalinsky, Official Photographer of Madison Square Gardens and Radio City Music Hall and million plus-selling author of titles including: Rabbis: The Many Faces of Judiasm and Garden of Dreams: MSG at 125 Years. - ""[A] beautiful and delightful book with a heartfelt story""- Rositta Kenigsberg, Holocaust Documentation & Education Center, Pres."

- A successful twofer: a moving ode to a beloved family matriarch and a valuable reminder about the role of history in shaping even seemingly ordinary lives. -- Kirkus Independent Review - In the uncompromising, larger-than-life Bubbie, her family has their hands -- as well as their hearts -- full. Her stirring story is one that should be widely shared. - BlueInk Review (starred review) - A book that is emotional, hysterical, and a downright must-read. In a world that only allows 5 stars, Bubbie deserves a million. Oy! -- Feathered Quill Book Review - Oy Vey! 'Managing Bubbie' is a great true story. -- Aventura News - Lazega tells his Bubbie's story with compassion, humor and dead on accuracy -- Eyes on News - Any who want to be moved by their biographical reading; to feel part of a family circle and part of past and present Jewish worlds abroad and in America, will find Managing Bubbie a powerful read. - D. Donovan, Midwest Book Review, Sr. Rvwr. -- [A] heartwarming and hysterical memoir - Heather Osborne, Readers Favorite -- [R]emarkably engaging - U.S. Review of Books (Recommended read) -- MANAGING BUBBIE provides an interesting and inspiring tribute... Five Stars -- IndieReader (Named to IndieReader's Best 56 Self-Pub Books of 2015) -- Managing Bubbie is more than a book about sweet stories from a Yiddish grandmother who will make you laugh and wish someone loved you as much. It is an epic piece of history caught in the pages of a loving book, which will surely touch your heart. -- Portland Book Review - [Y]ou just can't turn the pages and not laugh -- Boomer Times - [R]emarkably engaging -- U.S. Review of Books (Recommended Read) -- Russell Lazega brilliantly developed the character of his Bubbie as well as the stunning and historical world she lived in. Her adventures were so inspiring while retaining such an historical touch that I could not put the book down. I felt I was back again with my own Bubbie, all between the covers of 'Managing Bubbie.' -- George Kalinsky, Official Photographer of Madison Square Gardens and Radio City Music Hall and million plus-selling author of titles including: Rabbis: The Many Faces of Judiasm and Garden of Dreams: MSG at 125 Years. - [A] beautiful and delightful book with a heartfelt story - Rositta Kenigsberg, Holocaust Documentation & Education Center, Pres.

Author Information

Author Russel Lazega is a lawyer living in North Miami Beach, Florida. He is a columnist for the Aventura News and the author of several nonfiction publications, including Florida Motor Vehicle No-Fault Law and Practice (PIP), the nation's leading treatise on Florida car insurance law that stirred tremendous excitement throughout Florida's sprawling community of insurance agents and insurance lawyers. Managing Bubbie is Lazega's first foray into creative nonfiction. When he is not writing, or chasing after a pair of fire-breathing, house-wrecking T. rexes impersonating small children, the author can be found kayaking the waterways of South Florida, venturing as far as the tide will take him from his loving, but indescribably overbearing, family.

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