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Feh - A Memoir

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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."


Can he move from Feh to merely meh? Can he even dream of moving beyond that?

Auslander''s recounting of his attempt to exorcize the story he was raised with—before he implants it onto his children and/or possibly poisons the relationship of the one woman who loves him—isn’t sacred. It is more-than-occasionally profane. And like all his work, it is also relentlessly funny, subversively heartfelt and fearlessly provocative.

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Authors Shalom Auslander, Auslander Shalom
Publisher Riverhead
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 22.07.2025
 
EAN 9780735213272
ISBN 978-0-7352-1327-2
No. of pages 368
Dimensions 132 mm x 202 mm x 21 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries

Memoirs, HUMOR / Topic / Religion, RELIGION / Judaism / Orthodox, Humour, Religion & beliefs, Judaism, Religion and beliefs, Orthodox Judaism, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs

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