A review by rachelbookdragon
It's a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories by Katherine Locke, Laura Silverman

3.0

3.5 Stars. Though I rated each story as I read them, overall I wanted to love this book and I really only loved a few of the stories. Others were jumbled and disjointed and didn’t resonate with me. There were some really great love stories with lots of different representation, and some great stories of personal growth. David Levithan’s story was the only 5 star read of the short stories and it was magic. As a Jewish girl, I really wanted to love this collection and offer it to others as a means of learning more about various lived experiences as a Jew in this world, and while some of the stories did that, with their questions of what it means to be Jewish, visit Israel, and understand their identity in different communities with a variety of relationships with their religion, other stories did not resonate at all. I still would recommend some of these stories for people looking to better understand the Jewish identity within the diaspora, but I’m a bit sad I didn’t like this book more.