Foreskin’s Lament
Shalom Auslander
320 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 1594489556
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Language: English
Publish: 1191481200000
AudiobookBiographyComedyHumorJewishJudaicaJudaismMemoirNonfictionReligion
An intimate account of the author’s youth in a strict Orthodox community describes his dysfunctional family’s vengeful personification of God, his exile to reform school after a childhood misdemeanor, and his efforts to make sense of his religious beliefs while connecting with the outside world. 30,000 first printing.