Matthue Roth

Yom Kippur a Go-Go (eBook, ePUB)

A Memoir

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Yom Kippur A Go-Go is a mind-blowing meeting of pop culture, Orthodox faith, and hipster poetics. Matthue Roth is an American original: an Orthodox Jew who cites Outkast and Michelle Tea among his influences, who won't touch a light switch on Shabbos but mimics a screaming orgasm onstage while reading his paean to Orthodox girls. From the World Bank riots (what can you do when the revolution starts on Shabbos?) to Thursday night tranny basketball in San Francisco's Dolores Park, Matthue takes readers on a journey among the queer and hip streets of urban America in his exuberant memoir, Yom Kippur a Go-Go. With humor and insight, Roth describes the tension between contemporary life and the demands of faith. He falls in love and in lust with a panoply of girls, both strictly kosher and determinedly secular, to the accompaniment of MP3 rabbinical lectures on modesty (Boys are nothing but perverts and filthy animals!).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781573446419
• Artikelnr.: 53799882

Autorenporträt

Matthue Roth has performed his poetry on Def Poetry Jam and Rock the Vote and on three national solo tours. The author of the young adult novel Never Mind the Goldbergs, Roth lives in San Francisco. Yom Kippur a Go-Go "Matthue Roth has an explosive, generous worldview and a ridiculously large heart." Kirk Read, author of How I Learned to Snap "You don't have to be a radical would-be lesbian living in a straight Orthodox man's body to identify with Matthue Roth's lovely memoir. A universal story of reconciling your sensibilities with your tradition, it's a story for everyone. Matthue is far too young to write with as much wisdom and perspective as he does. This is an utterly compelling book, talmudic in its thoroughness, as energetic and winning as Matthue himself." Jennifer Traig, author of Devil in the Details