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Mr. Wizard - by Jeff Wallach (Paperback)

Mr. Wizard - by  Jeff Wallach (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>"The writing is knowing and engaging, wise about its cultural orientations, and driven to discoveries both reassuring and life-enhancing."-Michael Curtis, Fiction Editor Emeritus, <i>The Atlantic</i></b></p><p><b>"Jeff Wallach is a prodigiously gifted writer-insightful, funny, and always surprising. <i>Mr. Wizard</i> twists and turns like a double helix. When you finish, you'll want to go back to the very first page and experience it all over again, just to see how Wallach pulled it off."</b></p><p><b>Two brothers. One mother. One big question.</b></p><p>Two days before her death, Jenny Elliot suggests to her fifty-year-old son Phillip that, being half Irish, he should be more careful about his drinking. Phillip, along with his brother Spencer, has grown up believing they were the fully Jewish-American offspring of Jenny and her late husband who died in the Vietnam War. Was his mother uttering some dementia-inspired fantasy, or was her true character shining through in her last moments to leave the brothers a clue to their real heritage? After her death, Phillip decides to take a DNA test.</p> <p>The brothers set off on a genetic treasure hunt in search of who they really are-and what that might mean. Are they purely products of their genetics; or were they formed more completely by their social interactions and upbringing? Are they merely victims of randomness; or are they some combination of those factors? And who, exactly, is Mr. Wizard?</p>

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