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From the bestselling author of Jane Austen in Boca, âanother witty tale that combines classic literature with contemporary social comedy.â---Hartford Courant Carla Goodmanâs life in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, is a little bit stressful these days. Her doctor husband is frazzled, her sonâs teachers say he needs Ritalin, and sheâs in the throes of planning her daughterâs bat mitzvah. But itâs her sweet widowed mother, Jessie Kaplan, who really has Carla worried, for Jessie has suddenly ârememberedâ that she was Shakespeareâs Dark Lady of the Sonnets in a previous life. Can even the famed Dr. Leonard Samuels, psychiatrist and author of the self-help book, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love My Mother-in-Law, help with a problem like this?Witty, engaging, and wickedly observant, Much Ado About Jessie Kaplan is an unpredictable tale of love, loss, and family rites of passage.