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moseslh's review
4.0
I really enjoyed these short stories. Lev Raphael sticks to what he knows, which results in the stories having slightly too uniform a flavor, but he does it well. Each story is about some combination of being gay, Jewish, and/or the child of Holocaust survivors, taking place in some combination of Michigan, New York City, and/or Amherst. If there's a dog in the story, it's a collie. Despite this demographic repetition, Raphael's stories are distinct and cover a range of experiences. The collection has a very 1990 flavor, but still resonated with me. I would highly recommend this book to anyone Jewish (particularly gay Jewish men) or anyone interested in the experience of being raised by survivors of genocide.
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