Too Jewish by Patty Friedmann

i just finished reading the book too jewish by patty freidmann on my kindle. i was blown away to say the least. the book is about a holocaust survivor who ends up living in new orleans  and marrying a jewish woman from a very assimilated jewish family . to his wife's family he is too jewish. what i found startling was how assimilated these people are. i saw the play the last night of ballyhoo by alfred uhry which is also about the jewish southern experience and how assimilated they were as opposed to new york jews , but they did not prepare me for this book. the post ww2 southern jews portrayed here are so out of touch with judaism that it is hard to understand. i grew up in the midwest decades later and can't imagine jews , not even secular jews , being that out of touch. had i not seen the play the last night of ballyhoo i would not have believed it.
this story is  fiction , but its based on patty friedman's life. her dad was a holocaust survivor. her mom was a southern jew. her grandparents thought her father 'too jewish' . i do not want to give away the whole story , but it is worth reading. it is eye opening in a disturbing way.  i say read this book because there are jews so assimalated that they are out of touch with the jewish experience. in new york there at least is a jewish culture. other places not so much. this book is a best seller on the kindle.  read it and find out why.