A review by softstarrynights
Harvard Square by André Aciman

2.0

I hate to say it, but this was a real disappointment for me. It's a short book, only 300 ages, and follows the friendship between a Jewish grad student and a Arabian cab driver, which sounded great. However the protagonist, the grad student, was so unbearably pretentious I couldn't stand most of the things he said or thought, as the book is from his perspective. Even Kalaj, the cab driver, had a lot of annoying attributes, and that was why his "friend" treated his so poorly. I did really like the prologue and the epilogue, which is from the MC's perspective as he shows his son around, but that was about it.

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