Fear and Yoga in New Jersey by Debra Galant

The Gettleman-Summers family of suburban New Jersey is having some problems. Mother Nina has recently moved into her new yoga studio in the ritzy part of town when the meditation fountain she bought for the waiting room breaks. The same day, her husband, Michael, loses his job as a meteorologist at Newark airport. Meanwhile, their teenage son, Adam, wishes he could have a bar mitzvah so he could get lots of money and score with the most popular girl in school. Their lives are complicated further by the sighting of a possible hurricane in Florida which means Nina's parents will be flying north to avoid the storm. Nina has a very adversial relationship with her mother and insists that Michael not tell her about his job loss. How these people cope with the ups and downs of their lives over their days of being together forms the bulk of the novel. The book is a humorous look at how a family gets along. It's similar to the fiction of Paula Marantz Cohen, author of Jane Austen in Boca. Fear and Yoga in New Jersey comes out in March.