Shmutz: A Novel
"Hilarious and endearing...Shmutz is a dirty book with a pure heart." --The New York Times In this witty, provocative, and "compulsively readable coming-of-age story" (Cosmopolitan), a young Hasidic woman on a quest to get married fears she will never find a groom because of her secret addiction to porn. Like the other women in her ultra-Orthodox ...show more
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I purchased this as an audiobook & listened to it. I speak Yiddish so I understood the terminology & the references. Sometimes the reader didn’t pronounce things correctly but overall it was fine. This is coming-of-age/cultural awakening story with Yiddishisms thrown in to contextualize the Hasidic experience. I enjoyed listening to the book although some of the chapters were short/ choppy when things & characters (e.g., Podhoretz, the psychiatri...read more
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