Ado or not to Ado

Much Ado About Jessie Kaplan by Paula Marantz Cohen


My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Although this was a good book, I couldn't really get a grip on the main plot line- the grandma suddenly recalls a past life where she was Shakespeare's girlfriend. It seemed much more to me about a woman planning a bat mizvah and dealing with other challenges in her family. I wondered often if some of the characters were meant to be major or minor, and if parts were meant to parallel Much Ado About Nothing (and if so who was which character) like in her Jane Austen in Boca and JA in Scarsdale.
But these were distractions from which was really a light read with some funny moments, and characters that I grew to like.

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