Fear and Yoga in New Jersey.(Brief article)(Book review)

Fear and Yoga in New Jersey DEBRA GALANT. St. Martin's, $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-36725-1

Galant follows up her colorful debut, Rattled, with another funny suburban family satire. Nina Gettleman's new yoga studio on the swank side of an old, unnamed Essex County town floods when her poorly placed waiting-room chakra-meditation fountain leaks. One of Nina's students threatens to sue, and she's unable to get solace from her husband, Michael, who has been laid off from his job as a meteorologist at Newark Airport. Meanwhile, puberty-age son Adam has decided he's tired of being a lapsed …