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A darkly humorous collection of short works about the faith struggles of disaffected Jewish youths includes "The Living," a hormonally charged teen-tour of Auschwitz, and "Everything But," a sexually frustrated housewife's regression to Bat Mitzvah-age antics. 35,000 first printing.
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About the Author
Elisa Albert is the author of the short story collection How This Night is Different and the novel The Book of Dahlia. She is currently editing an anthology about sibling relationships called Freud's Blind Spot, to be published in 2010. Albert is a founding editor of Jewcy.com and an adjunct assistant professor of creative writing at Columbia University.
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Titled to reflect the customary question asked at Passover, these 10 stories by debut writer Albert explore traditional Jewish rituals with youthful, irreverent exuberance as her characters transition into marriage and child-rearing. In "Everything But," dutiful daughter Erin finds herself, after her mother's death, disturbed by the lovelessness of her marriage. In "So Long," Rachel has become "born again" as an Orthodox Jew and resolved to have her head shaved before her marriage, as per custom; the narrator, Rachel's maid of honor, struggles to suppress her sarcastic disbelief. "The Mother Is Always Upset" plays on the familial chaos of ritual circumcision (the bris): tearful mother Beth cowers in the bedroom, while exhausted new father Mark takes his cue from the sanguine mohel. And Albert, writing as nice Jewish girl Elisa Albert, becomes a cocksure writer determined to have the last word in the hilariously vulgar postmodern final story, "Etta or Bessie or Dora or Rose"—an unabashed autobiographical fan letter to Philip Roth, "the father of us all." (July)
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- PublisherFree Press
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0743291271
- ISBN 13 9780743291279
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages198
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