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Foreskin's Lament by Shalom Auslander
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Foreskin's Lament

A Memoir

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Narrator Shalom Auslander

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Length 6 hours 59 minutes
Language English
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A bitingly funny memoir of growing up in a dysfunctional Jewish family and wrestling with a vengeful God.

Shalom Auslanderย was raised in Monsey, New York. Nominated for the Koret Award for writers under 35, he has published articles inย Esquire,ย theย New York Times Magazine,ย Tablet,ย The New Yorker, and has had stories aired on NPR'sย This American Life. Auslander is the author of the novelย Hope: A Tragedy, the short story collectionย Beware of God,ย and the memoirย Foreskin's Lament. He lives in New York. To learn more about Shalom Auslander, please visit shalomauslander.com.

Shalom Auslanderย was raised in Monsey, New York. Nominated for the Koret Award for writers under 35, he has published articles inย Esquire,ย theย New York Times Magazine,ย Tablet,ย The New Yorker, and has had stories aired on NPR'sย This American Life. Auslander is the author of the novelย Hope: A Tragedy, the short story collectionย Beware of God,ย and the memoirย Foreskin's Lament. He lives in New York. To learn more about Shalom Auslander, please visit shalomauslander.com.

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Reviews

“Fierce, funny, and subversively heartfelt...With his middle finger pointed at the heavens and a hand held over his heart, Auslander gives us Foreskin’s Lament. Mazel tov to him. And God? Well, he’ll survive.”—New York Times Book Review

“Auslander writes like Philip Roth’s angry nephew... a scathing theological rant, a funny, oddly moving coming-of-age memoir, and an irreverent meditation on family, marriage, and cultural identity. God may be a bit irritated by this book, but I loved it.”—Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children and The Abstinence Teacher

“A laugh-out-loud quarrel with God.”—Newsweek

“A terrific book I was sad I read in so few sittings, because I wanted more.”
San Francisco Chronicle

“Hilarious, caustic, and surprisingly moving.” —Philadelphia Inquirer

“Blasphemous and funny.”—Newsweek

“A surprise and delight.”—Boston Globe

“A fretful, self-effacing, bitter…hilarious story.”—The Houston Chronicle

“Wryly comic.”—New York Magazine

“Hilarious, caustic, and surprisingly moving.”—Philadelphia Inquirer

“A very funny memoir.”—GQ

“Lyrical, hysterical… funny and angry.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer

“An audacious, poke-God-in-the eye memoir.”—Miami Herald Expand reviews
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