Carole published four books during her life. Summaries are presented below. All of these books are currently available through Amazon.com
 

The Journeys of David Toback

     On Armistice Day, 1933, the anniversary of his daughter's suicide, David Toback, a kosher butcher living on New York's Lower East Side, began to write his memories of coming of age and self-discovery in tsarist Russia. Forty years later, his notebooks were rediscovered by his grand-daughter, Carole Malkin. This collaboration across the decades and generations has given us a fasciniating saga of restless wandering and growing self-conciousnessnous and a life story that reads like the most skillful fiction.

 

Paper Bridge

     The story of the transformation and redemption of a Berkeley juvenile delinquent who is sent to a Yeshiva in Israel to be rehabilitated.Karl's story-he later adopts the name of Baruch-is intertwined with that of the hippy mother, Lisa, a supporter of drug experimentation and promiscuous sex. The novel contrasts her search of personal freedom with Baruch's search for structure-and eventually his ability to find a flexible blend of both.

 

The Life and Art of Gary Geckelman

     The Life and Art of Gary Geckelman is a coming of age novel. Gary must not only make the transition from boy to man, but to being an artist and to become an American. Born on the Lower East Side of New York and raised in the 1950's, he comes from a family uprooted by the Holacaust. To be Jewish seems sad to him, full of loss and death. He prefers the glamour of the movies to his family to teach him what is about and how to act.

 

The American Dream      

     The American Dream is about a young man who yearns for a home of his own. Shaped by homelessness and the pain of youth, Donny is anxious to get ahead and desperate to be loved. He feels he must have an upscale home for his wife and children. Such a home seems within reach, but just as puts in a bid, the real estate/mortgage market collapses. The consequences are devastating, but ultimately healing for him. Through an unexpected reconciliation with his estranged father, Donny finds his true home.