A review by postalweight
Crabwalk by Günter Grass

3.0

Well, if GoodReads won't give us half stars they certainly won't give us quarter stars. But a conflicted me wants to rate this 3.25? A novel that mostly struggled to capture my interest outright, but seemed to lull on easy enough ended with the type of book I would've hoped this to be! It only took 6 of the 9 chapters to get there! But reflecting on the book in its entirety I really enjoyed it. An unforeseen, modern sequel to the Danzig Trilogy, this book surprisingly brings back Tulla Pokreifke as a grandmother who has taken her anti-semitic grandson under her wing but told from the perspective of the father struggling to reckon with the infamous story of his birth. Günter Grass never disappoints when searching for a book that wrestles with the reality and affects of Germany's troubled past.