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Irreconcilable Indifferences

JL;DR SUMMARY Akiva Schick reviews "Night Night Fawn" by Jordy Rosenberg, noting the novel's recurrent theme of Jewish mothers and their complex relationships with their sons. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish IdentityZionismFamily DynamicsAmerican JewsLiterary CriticismJewish MothersCultural SatireJordy RosenbergTransgender Autofiction

Places mentioned

New York, United States
"Barbara Rosenberg, a mean-spirited woman living and dying alone in a small apartment on Manhattans East 69th Street."
Flatbush, New York, United States
"Barbaras wounded outlook on life took shape on the streets of Flatbush and hardened on the East Side, where Jews should be happy to even have an apartment . . . and not be dead in a ditch in Europe."
Israel
"Her Zionism flows from an obsession with the movie Exodus, even if she doesnt particularly like the actual Land of Israel (#relatable)."
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