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Growing up Golem: how I survived my mother, Brooklyn and some really bad dates

By Donna , Minkowitz

Book information

Publisher
Riverdale Avenue Books;Magnus Books
Year
2013
ISBN
9781936833603, 9781936833740, 1936833603
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
233 kB (238141 bytes)
Pages
(203 pages) : portrait\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

In the tradition of Portnoy's Complaint and Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, Donna Minkowitz's Growing Up Golem is an incisive, often funny memoir about growing up inspired by the Jewish legend of the golem. The author's mother told Minkowitz and her sisters as children that she could do kabalistic magic, and growing up, Minkowitz believed it. Her mother, a compulsively creative and unusually powerful figure, exerted even more sway over Minkowitz and her sisters than mothers typically do over their offspring, so it is the "magical realist" premise of the book that instead of giving birth to her, her mother actually created Minkowitz as her own personal golem: a little clay servant designed to do anything it is ordered to. In the book, Minkowitz struggles to control her own life, even as she publicly appears to be a radical, take-no-prisoners lesbian journalist...

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