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Author Berliner, Felicia

Title Shmutz
Published Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (273 pages)
Contents Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Daughter of Israel -- Dream-Teller -- O'Donovan Here -- Just Try Once -- The Dress in the Tub -- The B'show -- Cold Turkey -- A Blessing for Traif -- The Rebbetzin -- The Smell of There -- Broken Time -- V-neck -- Bruches Bee -- Too Much -- The Girls Inside Her -- Mint Schnapps -- Dead from Forgetting -- Borsalino -- Piggy Bank -- Taking Out the Not -- Purim Shtick -- Fire -- Kokosh Cake -- Marriage-Date -- Shvantz-Fresser -- Plum Pie -- Paid-for Jeans -- By Whose Word Everything Came to Be -- A Golem Between Every Man's Legs
Eighteen and One -- Birthday Creampie -- Shmutzvelt -- Shloimi -- The Food Falls Out of His Mouth -- Until 120 -- Sam and Spark -- What Day It Is -- First F -- What No One Can Take from You -- Habits -- Zeidy's Bed -- The Boats Are Not Here -- Seventy Percent -- Who's in There -- Exception to the Rule -- My Eyes to the Mountains -- Statistically Speaking -- Killed Her -- Meema Shprintza -- Dean Zeidy -- Gonif -- Why -- Every Night Is a Fight -- Working Girl -- Favorite Brother -- Topless -- Silver Treasure -- What Do You Watch? -- Snail in a Suit -- You Pick for Me -- Date-Moishe -- Self-Therapy
Cured -- Sheitel-Shopping -- Moishe's Gift -- The Dress -- Last Day of Work -- The Kalleh-Teacher -- Forces of Evil -- Goodbye -- The End of Dating -- Glossary -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author
Summary "In this witty, provocative, and unputdownable debut novel 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 Brooklyn Hasidic community, Raizl expects to find a husband through an arranged marriage. Unlike the other women, Raizl has a secret. With a hidden computer, given to her as part of her college scholarship, she falls down the slippery slope of online pornography. As Raizl dives deeper into the world of porn at night, her daytime life begins to unravel. Between combative visits with her shrink and complicated arranged dates, Raizl must balance her growing understanding of her sexuality with the more conventional expectations of the family she loves. A singular, stirring, and compulsively readable debut novel, Shmutz explores what it means to be a fully realized sexual and spiritual being caught between the traditional and modern worlds."--Publisher
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Hasidim -- Fiction
Young women -- Fiction
Jewish families -- Fiction
Hasidim
Jewish families
Young women
SUBJECT Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
Subject New York (State) -- New York -- Brooklyn
Genre/Form Electronic books
Religious fiction
Bildungsromans
Fiction
Bildungsromans.
Religious fiction.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781761185762
1761185764