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

4.0

This book is about all kind of Jewish teens and young adults. There is all types of representation of Jewish kids in different places in their Judaism, Jewish kids finding their place in the world, and Jewish kids developing all types of relationships. One of the stories even included a character named Dara! I loved a lot of the stories in this book. Some were slower than others. My favorite was the one about a religious girl who has to find her place in college. She doesn’t want to stand out because she is Jewish, but she finds that being Jewish is just ingrained in who she is. I did have a bit of an issue with some of the editing in this book. For one, in the introduction, Mayim Bialik writes that one of the stories takes place at space camp. It doesn’t, it takes place at a regular camp where a boy is interested more in space than in sports. And in one of the stories about Israel, the locations the group visits don’t make sense – you wouldn’t go from the south to the north and back to the south in one day. Yes, I am nitpicky. There are individual descriptions of the stories in many of the Amazon reviews, but I will say again that I loved the diversity and representation in the stories in this book.