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Boots!

Where would we be without boos?

Where would we be without good?

No, Tender.

It's a rhetorical question, sir.

But where would we be without books?

From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt.

This is Bookworm, and today an old friend is back.

We have Nathan Englander here.

He has, of the five books he's written, he's talked about four of them, I think, with me.

Now we've got a book called cottage.com.

It's published by Knopf, and Nathan Englander has written what they are saying all over the book

Flap is his first light and funny book that can be read in one sitting.

The one sitting part, I think, is true, but the light and funny will see.

I'm not so sure of because Kottish is the prayer for the dead that a child says, usually the male child, if you're from an Orthodox family, for the death of a parent.

And in this book, the male child has gone off and is no longer religious.

His sister knows, as my sister would too, that if he says that he's going to say

Kaddish, he's probably telling the story.

It's probably all made up.

And the worst of all, I mean, what an idea, the father's soul will not find.

It's the Nachama, right?

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