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Call Me Ishtar is the outrageous manifesto of a goddess determined to right the wrongs of the three-thousand-year-old patriarchy. She is Ishtar: Mother Goddess, Queen of Heaven, Angel of Death, and Whore of Babylon, and, returning to earth in this most recent incarnation, suburban housewife and sexual subversive.
Gallivanting through upstate New York, Ishtar breaks into a Hostess factory to taint its products, catapults a rock band to stardom via satanic rituals, and rises from the coffin at her own funeral-all to overthrow the worship of phallic gods and resume her former glory.
Gallivanting through upstate New York, Ishtar breaks into a Hostess factory to taint its products, catapults a rock band to stardom via satanic rituals, and rises from the coffin at her own funeral-all to overthrow the worship of phallic gods and resume her former glory.
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"…wildly funny, achingly spiritual, profoundly Jewish and feminist…"
The New York Times Book Review
"…bouncy, tongue-in-cheek mythmash of The White Goddess and The Feminine Mystique…"
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"[Lerman's] is a unique voice-wildly funny, achingly spiritual, profoundly Jewish and feminist at the same time."
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