Fax Me a Bagel: A Novel Introducing Ruby, the Rabbi's Wife

by Sharon Kahn

Book Overview

An Agatha Award-nominated SeriesA Book-of-the-Month Club Alternate SelectionIt isn't easy being a rabbi's wife in Eternal, Texas. It's even harder being a rabbi's widow. More than a year after her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 068484737X
• ISBN13: 9780684847375
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Love Sharon Kahn, Love Ruby - They are both human

I love Sharon/Ruby's sense of humor. I also love the way she makes fun of tight bottomed Essie Sue who is the older sister type we love to hate. I also like the way she gets the stories about old New York and the immigrant culture.Keep it up, Sharon.

I love the way Ruby thinks!

Obviously written by a woman who understands bright, spunky women. I enjoyed reading Ruby's thoughts on her son, friends, and the pretentious people from her temple. She kept me intrigued and I often found myself thinking.... "Wow! I feel exactly the same way!"

Judaism, Texas, New York ,murder - and bagels.

This is an excellent first book. It combines unique characters with enough plot twists to keep the reader turning the pages. The heroine, widow of a rabbi, is appealing, spunky, and funny. The villain takes somewhat of a back seat to two other characters - one is the new rabbi who must be met to be believed and the temple "fixer"-in this case a woman who is a steamroller in human form. I hope Ms. Kahn returns to Eternal, Texas, and her delightful Ruby, the Rabbi's Wife, in many books to come.

A really fun mystery!

I went to Ramsey High School with Sharon Kahn in Birmingham, AL 45 years ago and after reading this book, I find she has not changed one bit. She was always creative and interesting and smart. Can't wait for the next one and I am sending copies to friends for Chanakah and Christmas this year. Go, Sharon!

a fast read; entertaining & funny

Not since I discovered Anne George ("Murder on a Bad Hair Day") have I enjoyed a mystery so! Ruby entertained me with her descriptions of the characters surrounding her. She knows her bagels (and now so do I!). I enjoyed the past history of the Aboud feud and her trips to NYC. Having lived there, it was easy to picture the rent controlled apt. the uncle lives in and the bagel bakery downtown. This is a light-hearted, fast-paced murder mystery and I hope it's not long before Sharon Kahn has another "Ruby" mystery. I look forward to another visit to Eternal, TX!