A review by misshappyapples
Whatever happened to Anna K. by Irina Reyn

4.0

This was a mostly good book. The first thing I look at in any retelling or update is if it works against the original. There were a lot of parts of this that worked very well in bringing Anna Karenina to a tight knit Jewish community in the 21st century, but there were several puzzling choices that stood better without the comparison. I never thought anyone could adequately update Tolstoy's brick sized tome in less than two hundred and fifty pages, but Reyn didn't do too bad.