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amandarose529 's review for:
Shmutz
by Felicia Berliner
funny
informative
reflective
on insular community, shame, relationships, and discovering oneself. loved the relationship between sam and razor
“Perhaps, as Podhoretz is implying, for anyone with internet access it’s only a matter of time until porn is infested.”
“For the first time Raizl senses what it is to be just a person, not so much the names of what she is- Jew, Chasid, maidele- but something simpler, stripped, more essential.”
“Raizl’s annoyance with Moishe fades. In its place is a gulf of sadness, a tug in her throat- for the delicate way Yossi holds the satin skirt in both his hands, his fingers gently lifting the fabric to keep it off the ground- but she doesn’t cry. She laughs, and claps her hands, and understands the magic of Purim, where everything is upside down and backward, and all the children wear costumes, and so, in the holiday spirit of pretending to be what he is not, Yossi has become, for a moment, what he most truly is.”
“Perhaps, as Podhoretz is implying, for anyone with internet access it’s only a matter of time until porn is infested.”
“For the first time Raizl senses what it is to be just a person, not so much the names of what she is- Jew, Chasid, maidele- but something simpler, stripped, more essential.”
“Raizl’s annoyance with Moishe fades. In its place is a gulf of sadness, a tug in her throat- for the delicate way Yossi holds the satin skirt in both his hands, his fingers gently lifting the fabric to keep it off the ground- but she doesn’t cry. She laughs, and claps her hands, and understands the magic of Purim, where everything is upside down and backward, and all the children wear costumes, and so, in the holiday spirit of pretending to be what he is not, Yossi has become, for a moment, what he most truly is.”