A split image featuring a portrait of author Jean Meltzer on the left, smiling with wavy brown hair and wearing a dark blue top. On the right is the cover of her book, The Eight Heartbreaks of Hanukkah, depicting illustrated characters on a teal background with holiday motifs like menorahs and snowflakes.
Credit: Lisa Damico/Harper Collins

Jewish Tampa Events hosts this Hanukkah dinner party and book discussion of “Eight Heartbreaks of Hanukkah” by Jean Meltzer.

The book’s protagonist, Evelyn, is prepared to work through Hanukkah, producing a live-action televised musical of “A Christmas Carol.” But when an accident happens on set and her ex-husband has to become her doctor, the ghosts of her past lead her back to him.

Meltzer will sign books after the discussion.

Tickets are $36 for Jewish Book Festival—‘Eight Heartbreaks of Hannukah,’ happening Sunday, Dec. 7 at the Shanna & Bryan Glazer JCC in Tampa.

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This article appears in Nov. 27 – Dec. 03, 2025.

Selene San Felice is managing editor of Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. Prior to joining CL in 2025, she started the Axios Tampa Bay newsletter and worked for her hometown paper, The Capital in Annapolis,...