A review by mollylazer
Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson by David Grossman

3.0

Let's be clear upfront: this is not a novel. This is a very long d'var torah on the chapters from Judges that make up the story of Sampson. It is, however, quite fascinating. Grossman does a good job of humanizing Sampson and made me go from "Wow, Sampson is a total d*ck" (my reaction when I finished reading the chapters from Judges that open this book) to "maybe he's more complex than that." Grossman's ideas about people going back again and again to relive the source of their initial trauma has a lot of relevance in today's world. This was a worthy read--even if it's not a novel.