Foreskin's lament
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Shalom Auslander
Edition: 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed.
Published: 2008
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781594483332
Copyright date: 2007
Subjects: American Authors; Childhood and youth; Biography; Jews
Description: This book reveals Auslander's "painfully, cripplingly, incurably, miserably religious" youth in a strict, socially isolated Orthodox community, and recounts his rebellion and efforts to make a new life apart from it. His combination of unrelenting humor and anger renders a rich and fascinating portrait of a man grappling with his faith and family.