For the Relief of Unbearable Urges

Name: For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
Author: Nathan Englander

by Nathan Englander

Orthodox Jews navigate faith, desire, and infidelity in contemporary America

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Nathan Englander

American author of Jewish fiction whose short stories are celebrated for their moral weight and darkly comic imagination. For the Relief of Unbearable Urges established him as a major new voice. His novel The Ministry of Special Cases explores Argentina's Dirty War.

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