Every Day Is Yom Kippur

A few weeks ago, I got an email from a writer named Adi Elbaz. She'd just finished Yom Kippur a Go-Go and wanted to talk to me. Could she do it? And could she do something with it?



She just wrote a really, really sweet piece about my book. It's here. This is just a bit of the awesomeness contained:





Lonely (Wo)man of Faith in a Modern World



In many ways,  Yom Kippur A Go-Go   is the story of Hava Aaronson, or me as a 12th-grader: the story of to-thine-own-self-be-true-ing against the odds. And the odds are even stronger when you purposely seek them out, as Roth does: when you consciously make yourself a stranger in a strange land, no matter how appealing its social ethic. Because Roth's story of religious tribulation takes place, almost entirely, in the anything-goes wastelands of San Francisco's Mission District, where, as an Orthodox Jew, he—not the chick doing performance art with her own menstrual blood—is the freak. 



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We also had a pretty intense email interview. I'm not sure if she'll use it for something else, or I might ask if it's ok just to put up here.