“Edward Cohen has few equals when it comes to slinging words around —there just ain’t nobody any better.  With Israel Catfish he proves there ain’t nobody any funnier neither.”

- Jill Connor Browne

Multiple #1 NYT best-selling author of The Sweet Potato Queens’ nine-book series, including The Sweet Potato Queens’ Book of  Love, Field Guide to Men, Big-Ass Cookbook, Guide to Raising Children for Fun and Profit, and Wedding Planner/Divorce Guide.

 

“If there's one thing that mothers and daughters can agree upon, it is that Edward Cohen is a comic genius.  This is one of the funniest and sweetest books in the world. If Evelyn Waugh had been Jewish, this is the book he would have wished he'd written!”

- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Author of A Woman Independent Means

- Kendall Hailey 
Author of The Day I Became an Autodidact

“An achingly funny and true-to-life book… a comic masterpiece.”

- Jack Butler
Author of Jujitsu for Christ, Living in Little Rock with Miss Little Rock, and Practicing Zen Without a License.

 

“Edward Cohen has a brilliant comedic mind.  Israel Catfish is something Woody Allen might have conjured up were he raised in Mississippi.  It made me laugh out loud!”

- Stephanie Gisondi-Little
Film Producer

 

"When I finally sat down to read [Israel Catfish], I couldn't stop--nor could I stop laughing or avoid reading passages to anyone who came into the room.  Cohen has a wonderful ear for colloquial talk and a great imagination for the ridiculous and outrageous."  

Judy Page, English Professor and Director of Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research, University of Florida.

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The story, though it is hilarious, depicts real life circumstances and elicits a gamut of emotions as we laugh, cry, and see ourselves in the characters. I can still visualize a number of scenes that jumped off the pages. Israel Catfish is the real thing. Be careful, you`ll laugh out loud.

- Macy B. Hart

President, Goldring/Woldenberg

Institute of Southern Jewish Life