The Johnny Moss Room

The Johnny Moss Room

The Johnny Moss Room, told in the probing, seriocomic voice of Lilo Moss, shines its beam on the powerful bonds between fathers and daughters—even when there doesn't seem to be any. Lilo's hopes for her father's love lie buried in the backyard along with the rainchecks he made her collect before he'd take her to a Yankee game. He never took her. Now she's 17, the '66 Yanks are in the toilet, it's the Day of Atonement, and Merv—an ex-Catskills comic somewhere between Lear and Ricky Gervais—drags her to temple so she won't screw up his account with the Almighty. Watching him pound his fists at his failure...as a father, a husband, and a man who sold out his dreams to the Almighty Dollar, Lilo realizes he won't be sealed into the Book of Life this year—and she's shaken by how hard her heart's grown. Across the aisle sits her best friend Juliet Wolfe's family, refined artists blessed by the wife's inheritance, and with the kind of adoring father Lilo craves.When Lilo decides...