Joan Saltzman
Is Mr. Right and My Left Kidney too gruesome for Hollywood?
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Part of you wants to say onetime CP contributor Joan Saltzman's new memoir about finally finding true love after years of searching is a prime candidate for a movie adaptation. You know, swiping some of those big Jennifer Weiner bucks with stories of the bad old dating days and the road-bumpy courtship. But is this too gruesome and inelegant a twist for Hollywood?: Our leading lady has to donate a kidney to save the dude's life. (And, for a while there, she really would have preferred not to.) Related in conversational prose and loaded with idiosyncratic tangents, Mr. Right and My Left Kidney (Peripety Press, $14.99) is fraught with medical and interpersonal dramas as these two stubborn older people learn to compromise. It may not have the feel of a Hollywood romance, but hey, when you're a match, you're a match.
Mon., Dec. 4, 5:30 p.m., Penn Bookstore, 3601 Walnut St., 215-898-7595, www.upenn.bkstore.com.
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