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ONE OF THE TIMES' BEST LITERARY NON-FICTION BOOKS OF 2024. 'Hurrah for one of our most merciless humorists. Auslander's prose isn't just laudable, it's frightening' - David Sedaris. 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 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. 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 indelibly implanted in him at an early age, telling him he is fallen, broken, shameful, disgusting—a story we have all been told for thousands of years. FEH follows Auslander's midlife journey to rewrite that story, involving various notable figures and reflecting on his attempt to exorcise the narrative he was raised with, while trying to avoid passing it on to his children.
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