"His books have not just been good for the Jews; they have been great." – Joel Yanofsky, Literary Review of Canada
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This review of The Frumkiss Family Business by Joel Yanofsky appeared in the latest edition of the Literary Review of Canada.
Last December, after the film version of Barney's Version came out, I noticed that the chatter on my Facebook page about the movie and the Mordecai Richler novel it was based on had taken a familiar... 
Proving once again the value of a single-city tour, Uptown Magazine in Winnipeg has voted The Frumkiss Family Business one of its top novels of the year.
At the beginning of December Quentin Mills-Fenn wrote a great review of Frumkiss and has followed up today by including the book as one of his favourite novels of 2010.
You can read the article in its entirety here - below is an extract that specifically... 
Mike Regenstreif presents a considered and very favourable review of The Frumkiss Family Business in the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin.
Imagine suddenly finding out that a defining aspect of your identity was not what you thought it was all your life – that you weren’t really who or what you thought you were. That’s what happens to members of the Frumkiss clan in Michael Wex’s very funny comic novel about...
I don't know what it is about Winnipeg, but they sure do love The Frumkiss Family Business.
Not that I'm complaining, you understand - we're thrilled!
Uptown, Winnipeg's online resource for the arts, entertainment and news, has produced a carefully considered, well-written and (all-importantly) overwhelmingly positive review of the book. It was written by Quentin Mills-Fenn and published today:
The... 
Israel's is a classy Judaica outfit with two stores in Toronto - one just up the road from us on Eglinton and one in Thornhill.
They have always been supportive of Michael's work and we were delighted when good old Google alerts picked up this review of The Frumkiss Family Business.
"If you haven’t already started reading Michael Wex’s Yiddish-inflected books, “The Frumkiss Family Business” is a... 