Foreskins Lament, Shalom Auslander
Foreskins Lament, Shalom Auslander
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Foreskin's Lament
A Memoir

Author: Shalom Auslander

Narrator: Shalom Auslander

Unabridged: 7 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 10/04/2007


Synopsis

A bitingly funny memoir of growing up in a dysfunctional Jewish family and wrestling with a vengeful God.

About The Author

Shalom Auslander was raised in Monsey, New York. Nominated for the Koret Award for writers under 35, he has published articles in Esquire, the New York Times MagazineTabletThe New Yorker, and has had stories aired on NPR's This American Life. Auslander is the author of the novel Hope: A Tragedy, the short story collection Beware of God, and the memoir Foreskin's Lament. He lives in New York. To learn more about Shalom Auslander, please visit shalomauslander.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Benbo on December 04, 2007

I would have given this book five stars, but God may have frowned upon that and punished me for it by sicking a virus on my computer. That would be so God.......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on January 17, 2008

Philip Roth and Augusten Burroughs had a baby. As one might expect, it's in no mood. The only real surprise is that they would name it "Shalom."......more

Goodreads review by Edy on November 01, 2007

(from page 71) "I wonder sometimes if he-- and I-- suffer from a metaphysical form of Stockholm syndrome. Held captive by this Man for thousands of years, we now praise Him, defend Him, excuse Him, sometimes kill for Him, an army of Squeaky Frommes swearing allegiance to their Charlie in the sky. My......more

Goodreads review by K on November 07, 2011

It's challenging to give a rating to this book, so I'll just stick with a nice neutral three. As an Orthodox Jew, it's hard to keep my own feelings out of it, feelings which fell all over the map. So I guess three is a fair rating, since love-hate is probably the best description of my reading exper......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on September 26, 2007

I believe in God. It's been a real problem for me. Alas, Shalom Auslander's problems with God aren't so easily shrugged off. His problems with God are all-encompassing, paralyzing, potentially life-threatening. They've followed him from birth, through adolescence, and now into adulthood, to the birth......more


Quotes

“Fierce, funny, and subversively heartfelt...With his middle finger pointed at the heavens and a hand held over his heart, Auslander gives us Foreskin’s Lament. Mazel tov to him. And God? Well, he’ll survive.”—New York Times Book Review

“Auslander writes like Philip Roth’s angry nephew... a scathing theological rant, a funny, oddly moving coming-of-age memoir, and an irreverent meditation on family, marriage, and cultural identity. God may be a bit irritated by this book, but I loved it.”—Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children and The Abstinence Teacher

“A laugh-out-loud quarrel with God.”—Newsweek

“A terrific book I was sad I read in so few sittings, because I wanted more.”
San Francisco Chronicle

“Hilarious, caustic, and surprisingly moving.” —Philadelphia Inquirer

“Blasphemous and funny.”—Newsweek

“A surprise and delight.”—Boston Globe

“A fretful, self-effacing, bitter…hilarious story.”—The Houston Chronicle

“Wryly comic.”—New York Magazine

“Hilarious, caustic, and surprisingly moving.”—Philadelphia Inquirer

“A very funny memoir.”—GQ

“Lyrical, hysterical… funny and angry.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer

“An audacious, poke-God-in-the eye memoir.”—Miami Herald