Kasher in the Rye
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Moshe Kasher
In this "moving and powerful memoir" (Mayim Bialik), comedian Moshe Kasher details his outrageously dysfunctional early years in this darkly hilarious, absurd coming-of-age story. Rising young comedian Moshe Kasher is lucky to be alive. He started using drugs when he was just 12. At that point, he had already been in psychoanlysis for 8 years. By the time he was 15, he had been in and out of several mental institutions, drifting from therapy to rehab to arrest to...you get the picture. But Kasher in the Rye is not an "eye opener" to the horrors of addiction. It's a hilarious memoir about the absurdity of it all. When he was a young boy, Kasher's mother took him on a vacation to the West Coast. Well it was more like an abduction. Only not officially. She stole them away from their father and they moved to Oakland , California. That's where the real fun begins, in the war zone of Oakland Public Schools. He was more than just out of control-his mother walked him around on a leash, which he chewed through and ran away. Brutally honest and laugh-out-loud funny, Kasher's first literary endeavor finds humor in even the most horrifying situations.
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Author
Moshe Kasher
Pages
320
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Published Date
2012-03-28
ISBN
1455504955 9781455504954
Ratings
Google: 5
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"I bought based on the numerous positive reviews, but what a let down! Almost the entire book is spent reliving his drug addiction. I suffer through his inane jokes about race and sex—never funny—only to get to the very disappointing end: “Six months sober.” — that’s it! We never get to see HOW he finally becomes sober, the struggles and pain of getting sober. Nope. Just “Hi, I’m sober now.” "
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