num_pages: 303
description: Rising young comedian Moshe Kasher is lucky to be alive. He started using drugs when he was just 12. At that point he had already been in psychoanalysis for 8 years. By the time he was 15 he had been in and out of several mental institutions drifting from therapy to rehab to arrest to...you get the picture. But KASHER IN THE RYE is not an eye opener to the horrors of addiction. It's a hilarious memoir about the absurdity of it all.When he was a young boy Kasher's mother took him on a vacation to the West Coast. Well it was more like an abduction. Only not officially. She stole them away from their father and they moved to Oakland  California. That's where the real fun begins in the war zone of Oakland Public Schools. He was more than just out of control-his mother walked him around on a leash which he chewed through and ran away.Those early years read like part Augusten Burroughs part David Sedaris with a touch of Jim Carrol...but a lot more Jewish. In fact Kasher later spends time in a Brooklyn Hasidic community. Then came addiction...Brutally honest and laugh-out-loud funny Kasher's first literary endeavor finds humor in even the most horrifying situations.
language: English
title: Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16
publisher: Grand Central Publishing