Cammy Sitting Shiva by Cary Gitter a stirring debut novel is an unflinching, darkly funny look at loss, family, and coming home is Now Available!
CAMMY SITTING SHIVA
A NOVEL
“Wry humor, millennial charm, and New Jersey flavor make the messiness of grief real.” —Beth Kander, USA Today bestselling author of I Made It Out of Clay
“A guide to giving yourself grace when it’s too hard to feel it all.”
—Katie Runde, author of The Shore
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This stirring debut novel is an unflinching, darkly funny look at loss, family,
and coming home—perfect for fans of This Is Where I Leave You and
Competitive Grieving.
When Cy Adler dies, it’s a shock to everyone, especially his daughter,
Cammy. Almost thirty, slightly aimless, and stuck in a basement apartment
in Queens, she’s forced to return to River Hill, her one-square-mile New
Jersey hometown, to sit shiva. Cammy’s fraught relationship with her
mother, Beth, has never been easy. And now, with her beloved father gone,
she would rather be anywhere but back in her childhood room, in a house
filled with guests noshing on snacks and offering their condolences. So
Cammy does whatever she can to make it through seven turbulent days of
mourning.
Amid getting stoned, reconnecting with her best friend and her high school
crush, evading the rabbi, and spending a debauched night in Atlantic City,
Cammy must reckon with her roots—with the place she fled for the glamour
of New York, where she thought she belonged. But is she really any better
off than those she left behind? While navigating the swirl of emotions that
accompany grief, Cammy also uncovers hidden truths about her father,
which lead her to doubt how well she knew the man she adored. Then again,
does she even know herself?
Fueled by wry, lively prose, Cammy Sitting Shiva is a deeply relatable fish
out-of-water story, grappling with how it feels to be adrift and to find that a
hard trip home may be what it takes to anchor you.
Cary Gitter is the author of the plays The Steel Man, Gene & Gilda, and The Sabbath Girl, among others, and the co-creator of the musicals The Sabbath Girl and How My Grandparents Fell in Love. His work has appeared off-Broadway and at theaters around the country, and he is the playwright in-residence at Penguin Rep Theatre in Stony Point, New York. He grew up in New Jersey and now lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with his wife, Meghan, and their two dogs, Roo and Puck. This is his first novel.
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DISTRIBUTED BY PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE ISBN HC: 9798892422543
ISBN TP: 9798892422789
ISBN E: 9798892422550
August 26, 2025
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