"Shalom Auslander is a truth teller whose punim you want to pinch... Feh is a dark, daffy chronicle of failure and disappointment. . .Feh inverts the old tagline 'never let them see you sweat'; it is all sweat on display, salty and messy, the exposed shirt stains of someone determined to be a bronze medalist even at the insecurity Olympics." --The New York Times

"Auslander's literary career has been built on equal parts comedy, heterodoxy and self-loathing. . .His oeuvre is deliberately unsettling and funny. . .the persistent blackness of the book's black comedy makes the tiny shafts of light in the latter chapters shine that much brighter. None dare call it a redemption narrative -- that's feh-talk -- but Auslander does find a place where he doesn't have to be overwhelmed with contempt for himself or others. . .The two are intertwined. Even if we work to fix our predicament -- expunge ourselves of pointless shame, stop courting needless self-harm -- it's unlikely we'll ever stop entirely hating ourselves. But we can try, as Auslander does for much of Feh to write a story that's still honest, without feeding into the hate."--The Washington Post

"A poignant, profane, and scabrously funny exploration. . .As Auslander attempts to exorcise his demons and rewrite his origin story in a more positive light, the book takes on a 'meta' flavor in line with the narrative we humans have been telling ourselves lately about the way we use storytelling to make sense of our lives." --Associated Press

"The most mov­ing, indeed enlight­en­ing sec­tions of the book reveal how Aus­lan­der slow­ly begins to break out of the dark... Above all, Aus­lan­der cred­its his sur­vival to his clear-think­ing, green-eyed, artist wife, Orli, who nev­er fails to make him laugh. For in the end, the psy­cho­log­i­cal pain caused by feh can be eased only through laughter... At the end of Feh, Aus­lan­der begins to glimpse that light, reflect­ed in the glit­ter­ing eyes of Orli and his two sons. He dis­cov­ers an alter­na­tive com­mu­ni­ty, a tribe of feh out­casts who sur­vive by jok­ing away their shame."-- Jewish Book Council

"Auslander blends both a sense of despair and a self-deprecating whimsy in his latest ...Part personal history, part self-examination, and part social commentary, his book addresses everything from Kafka to capitalism...A page-turning memoir that shouldn't be missed... It could motivate readers to keep trudging onward, even when life seems overwhelming." --Library Journal

"Outrageously funny...With humor and heart-wrenching detail, Auslander confronts his deep-seated self-loathing and warns of how received stories can do psychological damage...The memoir is as iconoclastically funny as Auslander's fiction, but it's also reassuring."--Shelf Awareness

"A poignant...study of the religious guilt....The result is an often-brutal, sometimes-rewarding journey out of the darkness." --LitHub