Book description
From the acclaimed author of Foreskin’s Lament, a memoir of the author’s attempt to escape the biblical story he’d been raised on and his struggle to construct a new story for himself and his family
Shalom Auslander was raised like a veal in a dysfunctional family in the Orthodox community…
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1 author picked Feh as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Feh by Auslander is a darkly humorous memoir. Like this author, I too grew up in Monsey, New York, and it is often a struggle to reconcile my Jewish upbringing with the secular world. Shalom Auslander is a genius. His writings are witty and insightful, but also dysthymic, nihilistic, sardonic and cynical… The combination is complicated and nevertheless - due to some formula I have yet to decode - I cannot help but experience his odd existential darkness as uplifting.
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