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The Charlotte Jewish News - March 2007 - Page 3 JEWISH FEDERATION NEWS Past i ^Author Praise for Spring ^ Lecture Author Susan Isaacs as an analyst at the agency with out explanation, now writes a TV show called “Spy Guys.” She still wonders why she got the boot, but has tried to let it go— until she gets a call from an old co-worker promising informa tion about her dismissal. When the caller disappears, Katie’s right back into it, and she embarks on a mission to find this woman and discover what she knows. The search leads her through a trove of memories of her days at the CIA, with the fall of the Berlin Wall (which was happening when she was at the agency) serving as the backdrop Susan Isaacs ^ “Susan Isaacs has an incredi- ^ bly good ear for dialogue and /'Susan Isaacs f very sharp eye for the silly and , stupid things people really do. , Picture yourself laughing out , loud while sitting on the edge of your seat and furiously flipping • pages. The clever plot, the quick ' pace, and the pitch-perfect writ- I ing are good clues that Past Perfect was written by a master ^ storyteller.” — Nelson DeMille, ^ author of Wild Fire. ^ “There has to be^a name for the literary form Susan Isaacs ^ has invented: the funny scary ^ book. The woman who made us ^ laugh as well as shiver in fear A over a murder investigation in ^ Compromising Positions has ^ done the same thing for the CIA ^ and international espionage. ^ Past Perfect made me laugh, but ^ it also kept me jumping out of ^ bed every time a floorboard ^ creaked in my old house.” — ^ Sara Paretsky, author of Fire ^ Sale. ^ “I love Susan Isaacs! Her ^ books come straight from the ^ heart, and her characters are ^ smart, funny, and feisty enough to be your best girl- ^ friend — not only for three hundred pages, but for life. ^ Past Perfect introduces Katie ^ Schottland — a terrific galpal ^ mer camp and sleuths as a CIA analyst with equal style. Put ^ who packs her kid off to sum- ^ simply. Past Perfect is per- ^ feet!” — Lisa Scottoline, ^ author of Dirty Blonde . ^ From the New York Times ^ bestselling author of Any Place ^ I Hang My Hat, Compromising ^ Positions, Shining Through, ^ Susan Isaacs releases a won- ^ derful new novel about a ^ woman ousted from the CIA who, years later, finds herself ^ back in the game. ^ Katie Schottland, the pro- ^ tagonist in Susan Isaacs’s new ^ book. Past Perfect calls herself w a “Total Manhattan Sushi ^ Woman.” She grew up on New ^ York City’s Upper East Side, is ^ Jewish, married to a WASP ^ and, as the novel opens, is ^ preparing to take her ten-year- ^ old son to weight-loss camp. ^ Katie is clever, funny and ^ intrepid—a woman you want ^ to root for. In short, she is the ^ quintessential Isaacs character. ^ In Past Perfect, Isaacs ^ revisits the CIA, a subject she ^ touched on in Shining ^ Through. The character, Katie, ^ fired 15 years ago from her job IVe thank our Spring Lecture sponsors: Laxer, Long & Savage Pediatric Dentistry and Mama Ricotta’s Restaurant & Catering for espionage and sleuthing. To research the novel, Isaacs met with some former CIA agents, though her goal was to learn their methods, not to uncover information. “Look,” she says, her New York pedigree obvious in the accent that spices up her speech, “nobody’s going to give me secret stuff. Nobody’s going to break the code for me. And I don’t want them to. What I want is: How does it operate? I want to hear them tell whatever they’re going to tell for the lan guage, for their style.” While her characters may come from her experiences, Isaacs is careful to make sure the narrator - not the author - tells the story. If a reader says of one of her characters: “ ‘Oh, that’s Susan Isaacs Long Island Jewish/mother/grandmother blah blah blah,’ then I’ve failed,” says Isaacs, “because I’ve brought you back into my world, and I’ve taken you away from the uni verse of the character.” Isaacs is just as careful with her writing/editing method. No one sees the novel until it’s fin ished (except for her husband, a criminal defense lawyer) and she (Continued on page 6) "The more I leampbout the vital role the Federation has ft$ the Jewish cotmmn^^SB. providing jbr dtSdren, newcome^ young fatnilies^jxof^e in need, seniors - the more proud Imrto support the irKf^Sde things thei^il^aiJqatSi^ ' Q^al Ben-Yohanan ,• •* Federofion Volunteer and Donor Soper Sunday Cotiwir, 2007 WHY DO I ANSWER? 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