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For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories

by Nathan Englander
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
Binding
Paperback
Pages
205

Englander writes with surgical precision about faith under pressure. Orthodox Jews navigate impossible situations—divine permission to visit prostitutes, beauty discovered in widowhood, acrobats tumbling away from death trains. These stories hold profound sadness and startling joy in perfect tension. For readers who understand that the sacred and profane often occupy the same room, who find humor in humanity's desperate improvisations.

$5.00 SKU 9780375704437
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