Danit Brown, author of Ask for a Convertible, will be blogging all week as one of Jewcy's Lit Klatsch bloggers. Danit's book uses a fictional character to discuss life as an Israeli-American who has trouble fitting into both her parents' homelands.

When I was a teenager, I knew a girl who was such a big fan of the TV show Fame that she would take snapshots of her TV screen and send the stars of the show gifts on their birthdays. At the time, I thought she was weird: yes, I too have had dreams in which I was being wooed by celebrities (most notably, Barry Williams a.k.a. Greg Brady, but also, more recently, Barack Obama and Kelly Ripa), but even way back in junior high, I already knew instinctively that these people had better things to do than answer my mail.

And then my husband introduced me to the wonder that is blogging.

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