A review by deanna_rigney
Foreskin's Lament by Shalom Auslander

4.0

"My family and me are like oil and water, if oil made water depressed and angry and want to kill itself..." This is the memoir of a man brought up in a dysfunctional Orthodox Jewish family from which he begins to rebel against at an early age. It is funny, angry, totally irreverent, and an interesting look at the damage extreme religious custom and perception can have on the psyche of both a family and the individual.