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Harry Israel, the world's only Jewish optimist, is a failed and failed-again entrepreneur (previous ventures: a one-man 24-hour-a-day Jewish-Chinese restaurant and a bedside pipeline system for the incontinent or lazy). When he receives a letter from his no-count brother offering him the position of Fish Manager at a catfish pond in Mississippi, he wrenches his long-suffering family from their all- Jewish universe in Queens to a trailer park in the Mississippi Delta. Harry, when he beholds his catfish pond, shimmering through a haze of mosquitoes and humidity, is as elated as Balboa discovering the Pacific. But Harry's wife, Lona, desperately plots to rescue the family from their exile.
Harry Israel, the world's only Jewish optimist, is a failed and failed-again entrepreneur (previous ventures: a one-man 24-hour-a-day Jewish-Chinese restaurant and a bedside pipeline system for the incontinent or lazy). When he receives a letter from his no-count brother offering him the position of Fish Manager at a catfish pond in Mississippi, he wrenches his long-suffering family from their all- Jewish universe in Queens to a trailer park in the Mississippi Delta. Harry, when he beholds his catfish pond, shimmering through a haze of mosquitoes and humidity, is as elated as Balboa discovering the Pacific. But Harry's wife, Lona, desperately plots to rescue the family from their exile.
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