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ONE OF THE TIMES'' BEST LITERARY NON-FICTION BOOKS OF 2024 ''Hurrah for one of our most merciless humorists. Auslander''s prose isn''t just laudable, it''s frightening'' David Sedaris From the acclaimed author of Foreskin''s Lament, 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. Shalom 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