The novel’s sharp-witted heroine, Sarra Rabinovich, while coping with the the untimely loss of her mother, and the little-known effects of her Tourette’s syndrome, joins fearless female stand-up comics— Sophie Tucker & Mae West—in setting the pace for some of the downright bawdiest humor ever to “grace” the live theaters of the earliest days of Show Business.
The grandson of comedian and actor Eddie Cantor, author Mike Metzger’s new novel, The Tragicomical History of Madame Tourette, also includes several imaginary interactions between Sarra Rabinovich and other fictitious characters, along with some of Eddie Cantor’s other charismatic friends who the author encountered during his impressionable early years.
