Mamá para cenar

On her deathbed, the mother in this novel whispers a word just before she fades away: "Eat me". All of her children knew she would do it, but it is still a cumbersome, if not cruel, last wish. The Seltzers are cannibal-American, but the brothers must now confront their contradictions, their doubts, their modernity, tradition, guilt, fraternal conflicts and too many kilos of red meat, even if it is distributed among the twelve children . A tasteless dish. And yet, if they don't, if they don't eat Mommy dinner tonight, they won't be able to collect the inheritance. And they may not see each other again. The Seventh sees logistical and emotional problems in that feast. The Second only eats kosher food, the Ninth is vegan, the First hated the matriarch (and the tribal values ??and family chains he represented) and the Sixth is dead (one less for the cast). After talking about overprotective Jewish mothers and soulless gods in huge critical and bestsellers like Lamentations of a Foreskin, Shalom Auslander goes even further and signs a satire, hyperbolic but tremendously accurate, hilarious and also sad, of how we manage our memory family, our pain and our money that we remain in the world when someone important dies to us.