• ORDER EARLY! All Of Your Traditional Fabulous Rosh Hashanah Dinners And Yom Kippur Break-the-Fast Tra s Pre ared By Our Fabulous Chefs! ORDER ORDER Son of dysfunctional famous family writes a witty coming-of-age memoir. 4 Break-the-Fast • Dinners Little Boy Blue -4( Yom Kippur ROSH HASHANAH Trays ewish Holida s 6646 TELEGRAPH • AT MAPLE • BLOOMFIELD PLAZA • 24843200800 * * * * * * * * * * * * * Morton I. Telcher able hilarity his attendance at one pri- vate school after another as• well as his mostly short-lived friendships. On a more serious note, he discuss- umbfounded: Big Money. Big es his confused sexual identity, first Hair. Big Problems. Or Why manifested in the fifth grade when Having It All Isn't for Sissies he began to wear his grandmother's (Crown Publishing; $23.95), a remark- dresses. This problem continued able memoir by 27-year-old Matt when he went to boarding school and Rothschild, tells the story of his life roomed with "the best-looking guy from age 7 to 19. He I'd ever seen." Their lived with his mater- interaction, notes the nal grandparents, author, was "one more Howard and Sophie stop on the road t _ o Dumbfounded homosexuality." Rothschild, and their servants in a large When Rothschild duplex apartment on was 10, his mother Fifth Avenue, oppo- came to New York. site the Metropolitan Despite overhearing Museum of Art. They her talk about want- were the only Jews in ing an abortion when the building. she learned she was Rothschild's - pregnant with him, he grandfather came to agreed to accompany is America from Europe her back to Italy to before World War Matt Rothschild meet her current hus- II. He was a mem- band and his daugh- ber of the wealthy ter. The trip turned Rothschild family. Now retired, he had out to be a disaster, but Rothschild's. worked as a diplomat. He loved to tell description of it is comically light- stories and .had "refined taste' The hearted. author's grandmother, born and raised In a particularly sidesplitting scene, in New York, was the feisty, alcoholic Rothschild and his grandmother daughter of a rich merchant. attend a seder at the home of her As Rothschild explains, hisgrindfa- nephew and his. Jewish-convert wife. ther had "old money;' and his grand- Everything is done in accordance with mother had "new money:' Neither was Judaism for Dummies.. observant, nor did Matt discover they Rothschild chose to go to Rollins were Jewish until he was in second College in Winter Park, Fla., because his grade. What this meant to him was one Jewish friend from boarding school that he did not receive Christmas gifts had decided to enroll there. They took a from Santa Claus. Beyond that, there course on Jewish life, which stimulated was little evidence of the family's him to become observant. His rule- Jewish identity. books were The Complete Idiot's Guide to This somewhat quirky household Understanding-Judaism and Kosher Sex. came about because Rothschild's Rothschild — grown and disinher- mother left him with her aging par- ited from the family fortune — now ents when she took off for Europe lives in Orlando, Fla., where he is a after her fourth marriage. She called high school English and journalism home infrequently, and Rothschild teacher. had little or no contact with her. His This book sensitively and comically father, one of his mother's earlier hus- deals with the life of a young person bands, was out of the picture, having as he grows up in a dysfunctional left for California without even know- family. 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