The Kaufmanns

"As the world opens up in the wake of the pandemic, Alex leaves behind his life and moves to Germany to be with a woman he met briefly five years earlier, after a trip to Auschwitz. Their reunion is passionate, turbulent, strained: he's never felt this close to another person, wants to go to a risque club with her and lose weight so he'll never lose her. But something feels off. Back in America, his family is trying to wriggle out of the limits of their lives. His father's progressive newsletter makes him a pariah in southwestern Florida; his mother's new art-gallerist friend ignites her desire for a more sophisticated life; his brother is hurtling toward a wedding that he and his fiancée might not want. As that wedding nears, the four members of the Kaufmann family are desiring, fantasizing, launching themselves against the walls they've erected for themselves, against their very identities. Spanning states and continents, The Kaufmanns is at once a comic drama and a romance about the way this contemporary Jewish-American family searches for something more, the way they yearn for things-a person, a place, another life-that are just out of reach"-- Provided by publisher.