Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde

Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde (2013) by Rebecca Dana. Interesting but not terribly deep account of Dana's life as an aspiring Carrie Bradshaw in New York City. Carrie Bradshaw, of course, is the character played by Sarah Jessica Parker in Sex and the City. Dana starts by telling how she got everything she wanted, and how things then fell apart, and she found herself renting a room in an apartment shared with a Jewish rabbi named Cosmo. We then take a detour into Dana's youth, in which she, a Jew herself, attended Hebrew School. She's not a natural blonde, but she is the "godless blonde" of the title, being endowed with a healthy doubt about the existence of God. This is an entertaining book, though it offers little of anything profound, Rebecca Dana does have some interesting and amusing adventures in New York City, and she has a facility with words that makes the book an easy read. Grade: B