Growing Up Golem by Donna Minkowitz
The startling 2013 memoir in a bright new edition from Indolent Books. Yours now at a 20% discount — Includes shipping!
Indolent Books reissue of the iconic 2013 memoir
Growing Up Golem
by Donna Minkowitz
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Praise for Growing Up Golem…
Brilliant, exciting, startlingly fresh. Donna Minkowitz comes to the conclusion that she must have been her mother’s golem, a manikin formed from clay and garbage and sacred letters, built to fall apart when it fails to serve its maker… She takes a dazzling leap of fancy and then writes a new bridge into being behind her for the rest of us to follow.
— Ellis Avery, author of The Last Nude and The Teahouse Fire
Rich and wild, dark and funny, as fearless as her legendary journalism and as scary as a fairy tale. A serious writer at the top of her game. I love this book!
— Terry Bisson, winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards
Holds nothing back… the same brutal introspection and clever humor [as Ferocious Romance] , but this book is much more personal and sexually explicit … Minkowitz brings a defiant, playful energy to writing about her difficult and dark past. Intelligent but not for the prudish or fainthearted.
— Kirkus Reviews
Fierce imagination and compelling prose. Captivating. Growing Up Golem contains all the power of her earlier work with its sharp social and political analysis, but it is written without the cloak.
— Julie Enszer, Lilith
Golem, schmolem — Minkowitz has sculpted a wonderful life for herself out of sheer dedication and grit, and her writing is magic. Two goyische maidel thumbs up!!”
— Lily Burana, author of I Love a Man in Uniform