Feh : a memoir
Auslander, Shalom2024
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Shalom Auslander was raised like a veal in a dysfunctional family in the Orthodox community of Monsey, New York: the son of an alcoholic father; a guilt-wielding mother; and a violent, overbearing God. Now, as he reaches middle age, Auslander begins to suspect that what plagues him is something worse, something he can't so easily escape: a story. The story. One indelibly implanted in him at an early age, a story that told him he is fallen, broken, shameful, disgusting, a story we have all been told for thousands of years, and continue to be told by the religious and secular alike, a story called 'Feh.'Yiddish for 'Yuck'. This book follows Auslander's midlife journey to rewrite that story, a journey that involves Phillip Seymour Hoffman, a Pulitzer-winning poet, Job, Arthur Schopenhauer, GHB, Wolf Blitzer, Yuval Noah Harari, and a pastor named Steve in a now-defunct church in Los Angeles.
Main title:
Feh : a memoir / Shalom Auslander.
Author:
Auslander, Shalom, author
Imprint:
London : Corsair, 2024.
Collation:
368 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781472159311 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
2698066
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