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Kasher in the Rye: The True Tale of a White Boy from Oakland Who Became a Drug Addict, Criminal, Mental Patient, and Then Turned 16 by Moshe Kasher

4 reviews

avidbookreader7's review

fast-paced

Very disappointing! Retelling your childhood CAN be done without racial slurs, homophobic connotations, glorified substance abuse, etc.
Read through to the end to give it a chance to turn around but that never happened.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Alcoholism, Racial slurs, Homophobia, and Drug abuse

localghost_3000's review

dark reflective fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Drug abuse

Moderate: Ableism and Racial slurs

Minor: Homophobia, Forced institutionalization, Rape, and Death of parent

mattyvreads's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.25

Well written and well paced, this is an almost immersive, impressively honest, and thoughtfully structured account of a troubled child’s life. Unfortunately, it is a real account.

Kasher balances his wit with the sometimes tragic and often harrowing circumstances of his upbringing. It is thought-provoking and deeply moving memoir.

The author is raw and ernest in his discussion of drug and alcohol addiction. It is an impressive thing to be able to speak so candidly about such a personal and traumatic time. It demonstrates a level of vulnerability unparalleled by most autobiographers.

It is an impressive piece of literature.

(As a slight critique and side note: There are quite a few instances when the author uses some dated and offensive language. There is certainly a contextual element, as he is recounting what he heard and said in his youth at school, etc.. Still it gave me slight pause as a modern reader. He may have been able to allude to the use of the words without writing them out so many damn times… But I digress.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Ableism, Drug abuse, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Antisemitism

Minor: Car accident, Homophobia, Rape, and Cultural appropriation

scmiller's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Fatphobia, Alcoholism, Blood, Misogyny, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Drug use, Ableism, Abandonment, Alcohol, Racism, Body shaming, Homophobia, Medical content, Physical abuse, Addiction, Medical trauma, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Bullying, Classism, and Cursing

Moderate: Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Kidnapping, Abandonment, Car accident, Chronic illness, Gun violence, Body horror, Grief, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, and Cancer