The Wrong Body, Adam Mansbach
The Wrong Body, Adam Mansbach
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The Wrong Body
A Golem of Brooklyn Novel

Author: Adam Mansbach

Series: Golem of Brooklyn

Narrator: Danny Hoch

Unabridged: TBD

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/19/2027

Synopsis

In this timely, devastating comic novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Golem of Brooklyn, the millennia-old monster grapples with the occupation of Palestine, Zionism both Jewish and Christian, and what it means to save a people.

“Perhaps only a novel this dark and absurd could meet the darkness and absurdity of the current American and Jewish condition. A remarkable achievement.”—Peter Beinart, author of Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza

After being decommissioned for his intervention at a white nationalist rally, the creature known as The Golem has, as is his habit, returned. Only this time, the U.S. government is pursuing him as a weapon of mass destruction, the State of Israel is looking to recruit him as a national hero, and it’s up to Len Bronstein—the art teacher who brought him to life in the first place—to protect The Golem.

When an emergency military court is convened to decide the Golem’s fate, Len and his friends Miri and Waleed take a road trip from New York to Washington, accompanied by a convoy of federal agents. Along the way the Golem gets lost in dramatic memories of his past incarnations—and begins to question what it means to protect a people through violence.

For the first time in his long history, it seems The Golem may have a choice about how to live—but not if a secretive crisis management firm, a powerful congresswoman, the restless spirit of a long-dead Talmudic sage, and the Israeli government have anything to say about it.

Just as he did in the first Golem of Brooklyn novel, Adam Mansbach brilliantly weaves cutting humor, Jewish history, and a giant clay monster into an exploration of the deepest questions of identity, violence, and morality.

About Adam Mansbach

Adam Mansbach is the author of the instant New York Times bestsellers Go the F**k to Sleep and You Have to F**king Eat, as well as the novels The Dead Run, Rage Is Back, Angry Black White Boy, and The End of the Jews, the winner of the California Book Award. He was the 2009–2011 New Voices Professor of Fiction at Rutgers University, a 2012 Sundance Screenwriting Lab Fellow, a 2013 Berkeley Repertory Theater Writing Fellow, and a 2015 Artist in Residence at Stanford University's Institute for Diversity in the Arts. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, Esquire, and The Believer, and on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. He lives in Berkeley, California.

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“Perhaps only a novel this dark and absurd could meet the darkness and absurdity of the current American and Jewish condition. . . . A remarkable achievement.”—Peter Beinart, New York Times bestselling author of Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza

“Across his stellar body of work, Adam Mansbach has proven himself a rare wordsmith whose mastery exceeds all bounds of genre and category. The Golem of Brooklyn could be his greatest creation to date—a five-thousand-year-old avenger with showstopping feet and fists of clay and the mouth of a deadpan goon, burdened with the bloody memory of epochs of hatred. In The Wrong Body, The Golem is rejoined by brave Miri, stoner Len, and wise Waleed for more crackling repartee, wild philosophizing, and race-conspiracist stomping. It might be the political satire, buddy road-trip, body dysphoric, coming-of-age monster novel we need for these times of accelerated crisis. Stop everything and read it now!”—Jeff Chang, author of Can’t Stop Won’t Stop and Water Mirror Echo

“[A] shrewd and rollicking follow-up to Mansbach’s The Golem of Brooklyn . . . Satirically brilliant action ensues, while Mansbach’s smart and mouthy characters argue about what it means to be a Jew and the entangled politics of Israel and the U.S. . . . This sharply funny, antic, and astutely questioning escapade grapples with the perplexities and horrors of hate, oppression, and perpetual war.”—Booklist

“Funny as fuck, politically dangerous, and fearless enough to dive headfirst into the hardest questions Jews—and all of us, really—are asking right now . . . The Wrong Body is sharp, unsettling, and impossible to ignore. I loved the nerve of it.”—Tamer Nafar, founder of DAM, author of 3Gs: An Imaginary Memoir





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