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The Gilgul of Park Avenue
A Short Story from 'For the Relief of Unbearable Urges'
2007
First Published
3.79
Average Rating
300
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In this short story from Nathan Englander's collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, a Protestant, after a religious awakening in the back of a New York taxi, realizes he has a Jewish soul.
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3.79
Number of Ratings
14
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Author

Nathan Englander
Nathan Englander
Author · 12 books

Nathan Englander is a Jewish-American author born in Long Island, NY in 1970. He wrote the short story collection, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., in 1999. The volume won widespread critical acclaim, earning Englander the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Malamud Award and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Sue Kauffman Prize, and established him as an important writer of fiction. Learn more on Facebook.

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