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The rural town of Stockton, New York, is famous for nothing: No one was born there, no one died there, nothing of any historical import at all has ever happened there, which is why Solomon Kugel, like other urbanites fleeing their pasts and histories, decided to move his wife and young son there...

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

‘Extremely funny, weirdly touching and acute about families’ – Guardian ‘Daring, provocative and controversial . . . a work of genius’ – Scotsman ‘Terrifically funny . . . Close-to-the-knuckle farce with a big beating heart’ – Daily Mail Seventh Seltzer has done everything he...

‘Extremely funny, weirdly touching and acute about families’ – Guardian ‘Daring, provocative and controversial . . . a work of genius’ – Scotsman ‘Terrifically funny . . . Close-to-the-knuckle farce with a big beating heart’ – Daily Mail Seventh Seltzer has done everything he...

Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor From the acclaimed author of Foreskin’s Lament, a memoir of the author’s attempt to escape the biblical story he’d been raised on and his struggle to construct a new story for himself and his family Shalom Auslander was raised like a veal in a...

By the author of Foreskin's Lament, a novel of identity, tribalism, and mothers. Seventh Seltzer has done everything he can to break from the past, but in his overbearing, narcissistic mother's last moments he is drawn back into the life he left behind. At her deathbed, she whispers in his ear...

Shalom Auslanders Jugend ist geprägt von einem schrecklichen Respekt vor Gott...

Sie heißen Chaim Yankel Rosenberg, Stanley Fisher oder Rabbi Pearlstein. Sie leben in Brooklyn oder in der Upper West Side von Manhattan, genau 5693 Meilen entfernt von Jerusalem und Tel Aviv. Und sie alle haben ein Problem mit Gott. Oder er mit ihnen, je nachdem. Bloom zum Beispiel hätte bei einem Autounfall ums Leben kommen sollen, aber sein Volvo war sicherer als der Plan, den Gott für ihn vorgesehen hatte.