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TREYF : My Life As an Unorthodox Outlaw by Elissa Altman; Overdrive Inc is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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From the Washington Post columnist and James Beard Award-winning author of Poor Man's Feast comes a story of seeking truth, acceptance, and self in a world of contradiction... Treyf: According to Leviticus, unkosher and prohibited, like lobster, shrimp, pork, fish without scales, the mixing of meat and dairy. Also, imperfect, intolerable, offensive, undesirable, unclean, improper, broken, forbidden, illicit. A person can eat treyf; a person can be treyf. In this kaleidoscopic, universal memoir of time and place, Elissa Altman explores the tradition, religion, family expectation, and the forbidden that were the fixed points in her 1970s Queens, New York, childhood. Every part of Altman's youth was laced with contradiction and hope, betrayal and the yearning for acceptance: synagogue on Saturday and Chinese pork ribs on Sunday; Bat Mitzvahs followed by shrimp-in-lobster-sauce luncheons; her old-country grandparents whose kindness and love were tied to unspoken rage; and her bell-bottomed neighbors whose adoring affection hid dark secrets. While the suburban promise of The Brady Bunch blared on television, Altman searched for peace and meaning in a world teeming with faith, violence,

Who reads TREYF : My Life As an Unorthodox Outlaw?

Author

Elissa Altman; Overdrive Inc

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780698182127

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Judaism, Fiction

Rating

3.54 / 5 (128 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14