High Holiday Porn
A Memoir
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Imagine a cross between Chelsea Handler and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer… but it's all true.
High Holiday Porn is the story of an Orthodox boy in the Bronx who discovers masturbation during Passover dinner as a child, gets caught with porn on Yom Kippur, fantasizes about marrying his grade school classmate (if only he could get up the nerve to speak to her), and finally figures out that the way into a girl's pants is through her heart. But maybe the heart is all that ever mattered anyway.
Eytan Bayme's hilariously honest memoir is the true story of how an anxious boy finally stops masturbating in public, gets the girl, grows up, and begrudgingly makes peace with the unfairness of life and love. It's a heartwarming, fantasy-laden, usually embarrassing, sometimes raunchy and always outrageous look at coming of age. Bayme's stories of young love, fitting in, and social pressure will resonate with anyone who ever felt awkward growing up.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
From prepubescent masturbation to prom-night infidelity, Bayme College Humor writer and debut memoirist lays bare every detail of his hypersexual development as an Orthodox Jew growing up in the 1990s. Any reader familiar with the trappings of a religious upbringing will recognize certain key factors in Bayme's upbringing: his dogmatically strict father, his long-suffering but loyal mother, pressure to fit in with subcultural norms, and an all-consuming obsession with sexual deviance in all its forms. Bayme supplies plenty of wrinkles to the template, particularly his rocky scholastic experience and early behavioral troubles, but the overall tale never proves overly notable. Though Bayme pursues self-deprecating humor in every page, his jokes are too consistently self-aware for their own good. The result is a memoir that seeks to (raunchily) entertain, but instead makes the reader uncomfortable and less than interested in its subject matter.
