
2007
First Published
3.79
Average Rating
300
Number of Pages
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.
Avg Rating
3.79
Number of Ratings
14
5 STARS
36%
4 STARS
21%
3 STARS
36%
2 STARS
0%
1 STARS
7%
goodreads
Author

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.