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About the Book
Antisemite #144 by Sam Apple is a whip-smart, darkly funny debut novel about a secular Jewish guy, Aaron, with a rare medical condition: He's turning into a Hasidic Jew. At least, that's what Aaron suspects. His doctors diagnose him with rare hormonal disorder that causes men to sprout prodigious beards. But could it really be a coincidence that the condition set in right after Aaron's unsettling encounter with a Hasidic mystic? Aaron isn't sure, and the less sure he is about what's happening to him, the less sure he feels about everything else. That he can see the absurdity of his dilemma — his life increasingly feels like a werewolf novel penned by Chaim Potok— does not make it any less painful. It's Aaron's pathos, even more than the comedy, that makes Antisemite #144 so exceptional. There are echoes of Kafka and Roth and Larry David — but something entirely new is going on here, an alchemy all Apple's own. The result is a thrilling and profound literary experience. This is a book that stays with you long after you've put it down.
Product Details
- Publisher: Heresy Press (March 23, 2027)
- Length: 192 pages
- ISBN13: 9781683585527
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Raves and Reviews
“Sam Apple is one of the smartest, most versatile, and funniest writers working today. This book is timely and timeless, and isn’t just wise, but also profound. And did I mention how funny it is? It’s a book about Jews, but it’s so beautifully specific that the story manages to transcend the characters’ particular backgrounds to become something truly universal. When I reached the last page, I was at once entirely satisfied and wished it would go on forever.”
—Molly Antopol, National Book Award Finalist
“Sam Apple writes about human struggle with such exuberant humor, keen insight, and exquisite sensitivity. I loved this aging Teen Wolf of a narrator, and I love Sam Apple’s wonderful gift for mixing comedy and sorrow, for drawing out all the cruelty, absurdity, wonder, and mystery from the so-called everyday.”
—Karen Russell, MacArthur Fellow, Pulitzer Prize Finalist
“Sam Apple’s novel is a hilarious romp through the hotter fires of our moment.”
—Joshua Cohen, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
“Sam Apple, with his many talents, effortlessly navigates between comedy and drama, the peculiar and the ordinary. The prose is captivating, sharp, and brimming with confidence—I laughed out loud so many times.”
—Weike Wang, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award
“This is a New York City novel. It’s also a love story. It’s funny and sad and slyly bookish. It reads like the spawn of some literary throuple, the love child of Philip Roth, Gary Shteyngart, and Larry David. Some nights, Franz Kafka and I. B. Singer join in the romp. I read it at the gym. I read it in line at the hardware store. Wherever you read it, just read it. It’s that good.”
—Joshua Henkin, winner of the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for American Jewish Fiction
“‘You’re supposed to be funny-crazy,’ Maddie implores her (maybe crazy) boyfriend. ‘Not crazy-crazy.’ Sam Apple’s novel, Antisemite 144, is funny-crazy—with a smattering of crazy-crazy for flavor. In his wry, ticklish, inimitable voice, Apple tells a story part werewolf, part Jewish joke, and all hilarious. Crisp, clever, a true pleasure.”
—Max Gross, winner of a National Jewish Book Award
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