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      Shmutz

      by Felicia Berliner
      Published
      Jul 2022
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      288
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      "Hilarious and endearing...Shmutz is a dirty book with a pure heart." —The New York Times

      In this witty, provocative, and "compulsively readable coming-of-age story" (Cosmopolitan), a young Hasidic woman on a quest to get married fears she will never find a groom because of her secret addiction to porn.

      Like the other women in her ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn community, Raizl expects to find a husband through an arranged marriage. Unlike the other women, Raizl has a secret.

      With a hidden computer to help her complete her college degree, she falls down the slippery slope of online pornography. As Raizl dives deeper into the world of porn at night, her daytime life begins to unravel. Between combative visits with her shrink to complicated arranged dates, Raizl must balance her growing understanding of her sexuality with the expectations of the family she loves.

      "Clever, subversive, juicy, and surprising" (Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies), Shmutz explores what it means to be a fully realized sexual and spiritual being caught between the traditional and modern worlds.

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      General Fiction

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      Literary

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      Coming of Age Jewish

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      May 2023 Washington Square Press ISBN13 9781982177638 ISBN10 1982177632
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      First Edition Jul 2022 Atria ISBN13 9781982177621 ISBN10 1982177624
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      Jul 2022 Atria ISBN13 9781982177645 ISBN10 1982177640
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      Dec 2022 Allen & Unwin (AUS) ISBN13 9781761185762 ISBN10 1761185764
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      Jul 2022 Simon & Schuster Audio ISBN13 9781797140322 ISBN10 1797140329
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      Jul 2022 Simon & Schuster Audio ISBN10 B09KYHH83Y
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