Edward Cohen

Israel Catfish Edward Cohen

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.