I & Thou

By Barry Rachin

Since going on birth control in middle school, Celeste has been on aa erotic tear, but all that sexual carnage will come to an abrupt halt when she meets the Hasidic Jew.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barry Rachin
• Release date: Oct 16, 2019
• ISBN: 9781466155633

Barry Rachin

About the AuthorBorn in Boston, Massachusetts, Barry Rachin spent several years stationed in Yokuska, Japan as a Navy medic caring for casualties during the Vietnam War. He has studied at the University of Jerusalem, lived on a kibbutz for a year and holds a degree in clinical counseling from Simmons College. A self-taught woodworker, he presently lives in Attleboro, Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters.

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I & Thou

Barry Rachin

Published by Barry Rachin, 2019.

This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

I & THOU

First edition. October 16, 2019.

Copyright © 2019 Barry Rachin.

ISBN: 978-1466155633

Written by Barry Rachin.

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I & Thou

I & Thou

by

Barry Rachin

The Orthodox Jew moved into the freshman dormitory early Sunday morning. Celeste and Jennifer watched the odd looking creature accompanied by an equally exotic, extended family lugged his belongings up to the second floor landing, three doors down from Jenifer’s room. All the women were homely as sin with chalky skin that wouldn’t tan in a hundred cloudless summer days stretched end to end. Even in the oppressive, Indian summer heat, they wore drab skirts that hung down well below their knees, their hair tied up in kerchiefs. The menfolk wore black hats or yarmulkes, white shirts buttoned at the wrist and dark pants.

The boy - his name was Joel Shapiro - had a scraggily black beard and piles of kinky hair obliterating his ears. As if that wasn’t weird enough, he sported a pair