Playing With Matches

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When 16-year-old Raina Resnick is expelled from her Manhattan private school, she's sent to live with her strict aunt. Her sister, Leah, blames her for her broken engagement, and Raina is also a social pariah at her new school. However, in her tight-knit Jewish community, Raina finds she is good at one thing: matchmaking! As she continues to act as a cross between Jane Austen's Emma, Dear Abby and Yenta - the matchmaker from Fiddler on the Roof - Raina's double life soon has her falling asleep in class.

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"Playing with Matches is a fabulously unique story--formal matchmaking is definitely not a regular theme in YA--that embeds all the angst of falling in love and growing up and doing right by your family and yourself all under one cover." -- CanLit for Little Canadians

Author Bio

Suri Rosen dabbles in many arts, but excels in daydreaming. She has worked as a professional artist, filmmaker, journalist, and TV producer. Playing with Matches is her first novel. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.