WINNER OF THE CANADIAN JEWISH LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION "There are few voices in Canadian writing as original as Barwin's." Toronto Star A wild and witty yet heartrending novel from the bestselling author of Yiddish for Pirates, winner of the Leacock Medal for Humour and shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.Motl is middle-aged, poor, nerdy, Jewish and in desperate need of a shave. Since having his balls shot cleanly off as a youth in WWI, he's lived a quiet life at ho