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by Susan Josephs
by Susan Josephs
Friendship can grow from the unlikeliest of circumstances.
Rose is a ninety-three-year-old former ballet dancer and the last of the Eastern European Jews who fled the Nazis and formed a community in Venice Beach, California.
Nina is a thirty-six-year-old yoga teacher living in Venice during the 2008 recession.
Their lives collide after a car accident kills Rose’s husband and Nina’s fiancé. Wracked by grief, shame, and guilt over her perceived role in the accident, Rose attends the funeral of Nina’s fiancé. Nina is also wrestling with shame and guilt because she had a terrible fight with her fiancé before his death.
After the funeral, Rose and Nina strike up an urgent, complicated friendship. Brought together by tragedy and secrets, they strive to maintain an authentic intergenerational bond while grappling with their respective demons.
Set in one of Los Angeles’s most vibrant and eccentric neighborhoods, Accidental Friends tells a powerful and intriguing story of two women who help each other make important decisions about how to live—and how to die.
Details
Details
Bink Books
236 pp. ● 6x9
$19.95 (pb) ● $9.99 (eb)
ISBN 978-1-960373-14-4 (pb)
FICTION / Friendship
FICTION / Literary
April 3, 2025
Susan Josephs is a Los Angeles-based writer with a background in theater, dance, and journalism. She spent eight years writing about dance for the Los Angeles Times and her articles, essays, and short fiction have appeared in over a dozen publications including Salon, LA Weekly, Lilith, The Forward, and ARTnews. As a playwright, she has written five plays that have either received full productions or staged readings in New York and Los Angeles and her one-act play The Two Tamars was a winner in the 2022 Respect Diversity Competition sponsored by the Jewish Theatre of Oklahoma. Susan has collaborated with choreographers and performance artists as a dramaturge and spent eight years working as a domestic violence crisis counselor/advocate. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in counseling psychology at California State University, Long Beach and looks forward to writing more fiction.
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