richa087 's review for:

A Horse Walks into a Bar by David Grossman

3.0

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Hmm, so I am still contemplating on what did this book or how did this book make me feel. It is definitely written in a way that is very different from what I have read so far. It is more like a lengthy, drawn monologue interspersed sporadically with a few dialogues. The premise is that a stand-up comedian walks on stage in a club in Netanya (a town in Israel) and then delivers his performance while narrating about his childhood, about the holocaust, about concentration camps, about living and dying and surviving and bullying, all in the presence of strangers and 2 of his long known people. It is a tiny book, but there was so much to unpack in this story. Mind you, there are no chapters, so it was a challenge to keep going with this book. I liked the writing style, it was flowy and kept me going even when I was a bit tired of the narration, and I liked the way the narrator talks about such heavy, dense themes in a lighter vein. The heavy undercurrents in the narration have been handled masterfully.