Funny Boys

From the bestselling author of War of the Roses, now a major motion picture: The Roses, starring Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch.

"This novel has a laugh track; Adler's a good storyteller and has an ear for the rhythms of a good joke." - Jewish Journal

1937, Brooklyn.

Ambitious 18-year-old Mickey Fine wants to be a world-famous comic. 17-year-old, plain-Jane, Mutzie Feder longs to have the glamorous life she sees embodied by her idol on the silver screen, Jean Harlow.

Each of them despe...