Rising young comedian Kasher started using drugs when he was just 12.
Brutally honest and laugh-out-loud funny, Kasher\'s first literary endeavor finds humor in even the most horrifying situations..
Then came addicition...
In fact, Kasher later spends time in a Brooklyn Hasidic community.
Those early years read like part Augusten Burroughs, part David Sedaris, with a touch of Jim Carrol...but a lot more Jewish.
He was more than just out of control-his mother walked him around on a leash, which he chewed through and ran away.
That\'s where the real fun begins, in the war zone of Oakland Public Schools.
She stole them away from their father and they moved to Oakland, California.
Only not officially.
Well it was more like an abduction.
When he was a young boy, Kasher\'s mother took him on a vacation to the West Coast.
It\'s a hilarious memoir about the absurdity of it all.
But Kasher in the Rye is not an eye opener to the horrors of addiction.
By the time he was 15, he had been in and out of several Mental institutions, drifting from therapy to rehab to arrest to...you get the picture.
At that point, he had already been in psychoanlysis for 8 years.
He started using drugs when he was just 12.
Rising young comedian Moshe Kasher is lucky to be alive.
A hopeful and inspiring act of comedic magic from comedian--and now memoirist!-- Moshe Kasher (Artie Lange, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Too Fat to Fish).
It\'s a hilarious memoir about the absurdity of it all.
But Kasher in the Rye is not an eye opener to the horrors of addiction.
By the time he was 15, he had been in and out of several Mental institutions, drifting from therapy to rehab to arrest.
At that point, he had already been in psychoanalysis for eight years.
Rising young comedian Kasher started using drugs when he was just 12
