Audio Book Description:
In LIPSHITZ SIX OR TWO ANGRY BLONDES, author T Cooper detailsthe peculiar history of the Lipshitz family, refugeeswho narrowly escape the 1903 pogroms inRussia. Upon landing at Ellis Island, Esther and Hersh Lipshitz discover theiratypically blond-haired, blue-eyed son Reuven is missing. After a yearlongsearch for the young boy in NewYork City, the Lipshitz family relocates to Texas, joining a relative already living in the state`s dusty panhandle.Over equally blond and blue-eyed CharlesLindbergh after his 1927 transatlantic flight, she becomes convinced the aviatoris her son Reuven, nowgrown. Esther`s obsession with Lindbergh(Reuven?) leaves far-reaching and insidious effects on the entire Lipshitz lincage. In 2002 in New YorkCity, we meet thirty-year old T Cooper-the last living Lipshitz, who has recently received in the mail box from his estranged mother. In it, hefinds hundreds of clippings, photographs, and letters related to Charles Lindbergh and is family, all once carefully preserved byT`s great-grandmother Esther. When T is forced back to Texasto bury his sudden deceasedparents, he finds himselfthe sole inheritor of afamily history filled with loose ends, factual errors, and decidedly maniacal behavior. An ex-literary golden boy with a thriving career as a barmitzvah entertainer who impersonates the rapper Eminem, T rages against the world in a struggle to make at leastsome sense of all that came beforehim, and-in light of his wife`s persistent desire to have a baby-what legacy he might leave behind.
