
Genre:
Romantic Comedy
Themes:
Blind Date / Setup
Dating Disaster
Family Relationships
Forced Proximity / Stranded Together
Found Family
Girl Next Door
Growing Older
Low Angst
Misfit / Socially Awkward
Online Dating
Quirky Characters
Slow Burn
Heat Level:
Sweet (kissing, holding hands, etc., but no other on-the-page physical intimacy)
Archetypes:
Lawyer / Judge / Paralegal
Matchmaker
Writer/ Author
Geographic Location:
United States: Mid-Atlantic
Setting:
Assisted Living Facility
Big City / Urban
Courtroom / Courthouse
Hospital / Medical / Treatment Facility
Investigation / Stakeout
Restaurant / Diner / Food Truck
Shop / Gallery
Suburban
Sexual / Gender Identity:
Lesbian
Queer
Femme
Protagonist Identity:
Jewish
Great Bones
Golden Crown Literary Award (Goldie)
By Lynn Ames
Two elderly Jewish grandmothers conspire to "fix" their lesbian granddaugthers' love lives.
Rachel Wallach has a great life–on paper. Millions of people fall in love with her words every day. Her greeting card sentiments are the stuff of legend in the industry. And yet … and yet she couldn’t find the right girl if you stuffed her into a Subaru full of lesbians.
Her overbearing mother and obnoxiously perfect siblings, with whom she shares Shabbat dinner every Friday, only want to know when she’s going to get a “real” job and a life. Then her elderly neighbor suffers a catastrophic health crisis, leaving canine-phobic Rachel holding the leash.
Julia Spielman’s grandmother, Gladys, a matchmaker descended from a long line of matchmakers, has just moved into the Shady Acres Assisted Living Community where she happily renews her friendship with Rachel’s Grandma Goldie. When Goldie learns that Julia runs a successful online dating service, it seems too good to be true.
So, let’s see. We have Rachel’s deaf-as-a-post grandmother, her grandmother’s clever, scheming match-making friend, and a mutt named Freud, all hell-bent on “helping” Rachel with her love life–what could possibly go wrong?