The Wrong Body

“…[a] dark 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


“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


“Funny as fuck, politically dangerous, and fearless enough to dive headfirst in 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


“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