Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir - Softcover

"Fierce, funny, and subversively heartfelt...With his middle finger pointed at the heavens and a hand held over his heart, Auslander gives us Foreskin's Lament. Mazel tov to him. And God? Well, he'll survive."--New York Times Book Review

"Auslander writes like Philip Roth's angry nephew... a scathing theological rant, a funny, oddly moving coming-of-age memoir, and an irreverent meditation on family, marriage, and cultural identity. God may be a bit irritated by this book, but I loved it."--Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children and The Abstinence Teacher

"A laugh-out-loud quarrel with God."--Newsweek

"A terrific book I was sad I read in so few sittings, because I wanted more."
--San Francisco Chronicle

"Hilarious, caustic, and surprisingly moving." --Philadelphia Inquirer

"Blasphemous and funny."--Newsweek

"A surprise and delight."--Boston Globe

"A fretful, self-effacing, bitter...hilarious story."--The Houston Chronicle

"Wryly comic."--New York Magazine

"Hilarious, caustic, and surprisingly moving."--Philadelphia Inquirer

"A very funny memoir."--GQ

"Lyrical, hysterical... funny and angry."--Cleveland Plain Dealer

"An audacious, poke-God-in-the eye memoir."--Miami Herald

An intimate account of the author's youth in a strict Orthodox community describes his dysfunctional family's vengeful personification of God, his exile to reform school after a childhood misdemeanor, and his efforts to make sense of his religious beliefs while connecting with the outside world. Reprint.