Foreskin's lament
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Shalom Auslander.
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781594489556
Subjects: Auslander, Shalom -- Childhood and youth; Authors, American -- 21th century -- Biography; Jews -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: An 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.