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Hope by Shalom Auslander

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Jan 28, 12

bookshelves: 2012-reads
Read from January 23 to 25, 2012

I don't even know where to start reviewing this book. It is so very, very wrong and hysterically funny. How could you miss with a story about Anne Frank living in your attic and your dying mother who thinks she's a Holocaust survivor.

Auslander is not for the easily-offended and while this book is a great read (devoured most of it on a single plane ride), Foreskin's Lament is where you want to start.

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message 1: by Sonya (new)

Sonya I haven't read this, but it sounds like a perfect companion read to it would be Philip Roth's The Ghost Writer, which features some Anne Frankism, as well. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50...


message 2: by Sonya (new)

Sonya "perfect companion read to it" is terrible construction. You know what I mean. I'm doing taxes and laying out a catalog and I'm so tired. :)


Kalen I do know what you mean and I'll have to check that out. Roth does make several appearances in this book, natch.


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