text: Malamud 's daughter , Janna Malamud Smith , has just now brought out a book called Private In Defense of the Personal Life , in which she says that , coming across a sexual scene in one of her father 's novels , she put the book down in embarrassment , out of daughterly modesty .
  
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  Malamud 's sister , in her new book , talked about the relationship between her and her father 's books .