Nominated for the Koret Jewish Book award, Shalom Auslander is the author of the NYT Notable Book Foreskin's Lament and Beware of God. In his novelistic debut, he tells the darkly comic story of Solomon Kugel - a man determined to live a boring life who is plagued by a mother who makes up memories of the Holocaust, an arsonist on the loose, and a living, breathing, thought-to-be dead specimen of history living in his attic.
