Shopping Lessons

One of the few excursions Mrs. Perlman and her daughter were hard-wired to perform with civility was shopping. Almost everything eels evoked the white rage of competition. But live got far more complex when Mr. Perlman became fatally ill, and his son's disturbed wife suddenly committed suicide. Shopping Lessons, a coming-of-age-novel, looks at the price a woman pays for growing into herself.