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Yid by Paul Goldberg
3.0

I simply don’t know how to feel about this book - I fear that my unfamiliarity with Russian culture and literature probably has a lot to do with the unease I felt reading this book.

The narrative voice is all over the place and a lot of minor characters are given rich backstories only to be a non-factor just pages later. I laughed a lot at the gallows humour but found it inconsistent.

Interesting characters for sure. And a intriguing, if confusing, story. But it was hard to get through for me. Mainly finished it out of stubbornness.