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Also by Shalom Auslander:

Mother for Dinner, September 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Hope: A Tragedy, January 2012
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Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir, October 2007
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Beware of God: Stories, April 2006
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Beware Of God, April 2005
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BEWARE OF GOD
By: Shalom Auslander

Simon & Schuster
April 2005
On Sale: March 22, 2005
208 pages
ISBN: 0743264568
EAN: 9780743264563
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Shalom Auslander's stories in Beware of God have the mysterious punch of a dream. They are wide ranging and inventive: A young Jewish man's inexplicable transformation into a very large, blond, tattooed goy ends with an argument over whether or not his father can beat his unclean son with a copy of the Talmud. A pious man having a near-death experience discovers that God is actually a chicken, and he's forced to reconsider his life -- and his diet. At God's insistence, Leo Schwartzman searches Home Depot for supplies for an ark. And a young boy mistakes Holocaust Remembrance Day as emergency preparedness training for the future.

Auslander draws upon his upbringing in an Orthodox Jewish community in New York State to craft stories that are filled with shame, sex, God, and death, but also manage to be wickedly funny and poignant.

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This American Life - April 4, 2009