Reviews
Most people have compulsions. Eytan Bayme discovers his at age six. And, given the title of his book, you might be able to guess their nature. If you ever thought you were an excessive self-soother, this laugh-out-loud memoir will definitely make you feel better about yourself. If you ever thought you were a precocious one, it may burst your bubble., A sad, funny, painfully honest peek behind the curtain and into the hormonal maelstrom of male adolescence., Have you heard? Mark Twain is back among us, reincarnated as a Jewish kid from the Bronx named Eytan Bayme. Or so it must be. In High Holiday Porn , Bayme captures boyhood in a way not quite seen since The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -in other words, in all its mischievous, mysterious glory. Very few books make me laugh out loud, but High Holiday Porn did so on page after page. And when I wasn't laughing, I was nodding in understanding. The formative male is an enigma not easily cracked; Bayme nails it with laser insight-and an abundance of hilarity and heart., "A sad, funny, painfully honest peek behind the curtain and into the hormonal maelstrom of male adolescence."-Jonathan Tropper, author of One Last Thing Before I Go and This is Where I Leave You "Bayme captures boyhood in a way not quite seen since The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -in other words, in all its mischievous, mysterious glory. Very few books make me laugh out loud, but High Holiday Porn did so on page after page. And when I wasn't laughing, I was nodding in understanding. The formative male is an enigma not easily cracked... and an abundance of hilarity and heart."-John Grogan, author of Marley & Me and The Longest Trip Home, High Holiday Porn is a brutally honest and genuinely funny confession of an adolescence even more awkward than yours., "Have you heard? Mark Twain is back among us, reincarnated as a Jewish kid from the Bronx named Eytan Bayme. Or so it must be. In High Holiday Porn , Bayme captures boyhood in a way not quite seen since The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -in other words, in all its mischievous, mysterious glory. Very few books make me laugh out loud, but High Holiday Porn did so on page after page. And when I wasn't laughing, I was nodding in understanding. The formative male is an enigma not easily cracked; Bayme nails it with laser insight-and an abundance of hilarity and heart." --John Grogan, author of "Marley & Me" and "The Longest Trip" "A sad, funny, painfully honest peek behind the curtain and into the hormonal maelstrom of male adolescence." --Jonathan Tropper, author of "One Last Thing Before I Go" and "This is Where I Leave You" "Most people have compulsions. Eytan Bayme discovers his at age six. And, given the title of his book, you might be able to guess their nature. If you ever thought you were an excessive self-soother, this laugh-out-loud memoir will definitely make you feel better about yourself. If you ever thought you were a precocious one, it may burst your bubble." --Mishna Wolff, author of "I'm Down" " High Holiday Porn is a brutally honest and genuinely funny confession of an adolescence even more awkward than yours." -- Kimberly Rae Miller, author of COMING CLEAN "The combination of comedic Jewish coming-of-age story and masturbation can't help but conjure up images of Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint." -- Kirkus Reviews
