Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Mazeltov

Eli Zuzovsky

3.43/5 (165 ratings)

Read Now Download Now

In a glorious debut, a boy confronts queer lust, shame, the threat of war, and the plague of family on the day he becomes a man.

At a banquet hall, at the onset of war, Adam Weizmann’s bar mitzvah party turns into a glorious catastrophe. On the cusp of manhood—and the verge of a nervous breakdown—Adam has been bracing for his special day, mired in family neuroses and national dysfunction.

In a chorus of voices, a fractious cast of well-wishers narrates Adam’s coming-of-age in Israel: his newly devout father and the mystic rituals he practiced on his young son; his best friend, Abbie, who points the way to joyful transgression; Khalil, a Palestinian poet, who offers a glimpse of a different way to be; and Adam himself, filled with shame and desire as he faces the brokenness of his world.

At once tender and lustful, a work of scathing satire and piercing insight, Mazeltov is a wholly original vision of a young man’s quest to know his own heart.

Format:

Pages:: pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:

Language:

ISBN10:: 1250345278

ISBN13:: 9781250345271

kindle Asin:: B0D1P9N5TF

Mazeltov

Eli Zuzovsky

3.43/5 (165 ratings)

Read Download

In a glorious debut, a boy confronts queer lust, shame, the threat of war, and the plague of family on the day he becomes a man.

At a banquet hall, at the onset of war, Adam Weizmann’s bar mitzvah party turns into a glorious catastrophe. On the cusp of manhood—and the verge of a nervous breakdown—Adam has been bracing for his special day, mired in family neuroses and national dysfunction.

In a chorus of voices, a fractious cast of well-wishers narrates Adam’s coming-of-age in Israel: his newly devout father and the mystic rituals he practiced on his young son; his best friend, Abbie, who points the way to joyful transgression; Khalil, a Palestinian poet, who offers a glimpse of a different way to be; and Adam himself, filled with shame and desire as he faces the brokenness of his world.

At once tender and lustful, a work of scathing satire and piercing insight, Mazeltov is a wholly original vision of a young man’s quest to know his own heart.

Format:

Pages:: pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:

Language:

ISBN10:: 1250345278

ISBN13:: 9781250345271

kindle Asin:: B0D1P9N5TF

More Books

Mothers and Sons

Adam Haslett

Hello Stranger: Musings on Modern Intimacies

Manuel Betancourt

The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir

Edmund White

Never Planned on You

Lindsay Hameroff

Playworld

Adam Ross

Stag Dance

Torrey Peters

I Might Be in Trouble

Daniel Aleman

How to Sleep at Night

Elizabeth Harris

Songs for the Brokenhearted

Ayelet Tsabari

The Boyhood of Cain

Michael Amherst

In the Absence of Men

Philippe Besson

Twist

Colum McCann