{"product_id":"feh-a-memoir","title":"Feh: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eForeskin's Lament\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShalom 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. Now, 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. One indelibly implanted in him at an early age, a story that told him he is fallen, broken, shameful, disgusting, a story we have all been told for thousands of years, and continue to be told by the religious and secular alike, a story called \"Feh.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYiddish for \"Yuck.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFeh\u003c\/i\u003e follows Auslander's midlife journey to rewrite that story, a journey that involves Phillip Seymour Hoffman, a Pulitzer-winning poet, Job, Arthur Schopenhauer, GHB, Wolf Blitzer, Yuval Noah Harari and a pastor named Steve in a now-defunct church in Los Angeles. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCan he move from Feh to merely meh? Can he even dream of moving beyond that? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAuslander's recounting of his attempt to exorcize the story he was raised with--before he implants it onto his children and\/or possibly poisons the relationship of the one woman who loves him--isn't sacred. It is more-than-occasionally profane. And like all his work, it is also relentlessly funny, subversively heartfelt and fearlessly provocative.","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51661177684258,"sku":"9780735213265","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/8637\/3154\/files\/imageloader_e28183e1-e5de-4ac9-b85a-28567d7894b6.jpg?v=1779451116","url":"https:\/\/godmothers.com\/products\/feh-a-memoir","provider":"Godmothers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}