I’ll Be the Death of Me

Born an only child in the former Soviet Union and immigrating to Melbourne, Australia by accident, Susanna is sent to an Orthodox Jewish School. Raised by a Soviet military father, a fatalistic mother, and borderline personality grandmother Babushka (she of the ever-roaming eyebrow) she is mercilessly taunted by Jewish Australian Princesses and decides it’s better not to get your hopes up as everything ends in death. Cursed with a black depression from childhood, but blessed with a genius sense of humor, a decade later, she becomes a comedy star in Australia. Seeking the American Dream (and to piss off her parents) she travels to NYC for fame and fortune, where she falls in love with the greatest city on earth, but finds the romance is one-sided. In the Big Apple, she samples the local circumcised fare, continues to bare her soul at both stand-up comedy venues and Conservative Temple, finally meeting and marrying the rarest of creatures, a large blond Jew.Eventually Brisk finds herself living that fabled American Dream in Malibu, the mother of ‘Irish Twin’ boys, but in typically self-destructive style, seeks to throw it all away by running away from home. Only when committed to a lock-down psych facility does our heroine finally learn that she may not be as crazy as she thinks she is, success can be measured in a myriad of ways, and that children are the greatest miracle as they may keep you from killing yourself.