Letters From My Sister is a collection of correspondence between two sisters whose offbeat adventures and observations run the gamut from men to careers to hair removal, earning an endorsement from the The New York Times’ City section editor as “a warm slice of life on the edge, with an edge.”
Nobody escapes a good kick in the "tuchos" as they lovingly ridicule everyone in their path—from their mother who plops a whole pickled tongue on the table like an autopsy to their beloved grandmother who heard about the class Eve took on how to break into porn. “Feh, I never really understood that stuff,” she responded dejectedly, like she had given it her best effort, but unlike the blintz, had never been able to master it.
The sisters' urban escapades include an exhaustive search for the inventor of Tweezerman (who developed his implement after sunbathing naked on an unfinished wooden deck), a meeting with a Scientologist Electrologist (a hair removal specialist devoted to L. Ron Hubbard) and a session with a shrink who asks Eve if she's ever considered suicide--hmm, was she inquiring or making a suggestion?
In their letters, the sisters strive to reassure each other, and their audience, that we are not alone in the search for the ultimate man, the perfect hair removal method or the ideal way to escape from a mental ward (one of Eve's more eccentric escapades). Through their correspondence, the sisters relate stories and reveal secrets in a way that only sisters can—with a raw openness and honesty derived from a lifetime of shared experiences that surpasses the bond of best friends. They laugh long and hard at themselves, empowering readers to do the same.
Check out Eve's CD of live spoken word performances,"GOING PUBLIC", on Amazon. Eve has told stories on stage at New York City's Bitter End, The Players Club, The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and with The Liar Show at the Bryant Park Reading Room. She was a Grand Slam finalist with The Moth storytelling group and was named one of New York's "best emerging Jewish artists" by the Museum of Jewish Heritage.
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