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Mother for Dinner
Audiobook available · 6 hr 54 min
A mother’s death leaves siblings with a disturbing obligation: their family tradition requires them to consume her body.
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What makes it funny?
The publisher presents the family ritual with humor; its reprinted Booklist praise specifically identifies dark humor and satire.
The comedy at work
The shocking obligation meets practical disagreement, including dietary restrictions. That collision turns the question of preserving tradition into grotesque social satire.
Sources & further reading
- Penguin Random House lists Mother for Dinner by Shalom Auslander as a 272-page hardcover, ISBN 9781594633720, published by Riverhead Books.
Publisher
- Apple Books identifies Mother for Dinner: A Novel (Unabridged) by Shalom Auslander, published by Penguin Audio, with a 6-hour-54-minute runtime.
Book information
- Mother for Dinner US publisher page
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