Status Updates From Sons and Daughters: A Novel

Even in the interwar period, teenage boys were reading Nietzsche to show how cool they were. Only then, their peers scoffed and said 'read Marx, you dummy!'

So far Refael'ke is my favorite, especially now that the Bund have shown up.
I love it but after reading books in a couple of days I'm annoyed at my own pace.

So far this Yiddish novel is the perfect opposite of the Japanese one I just finished. And so far it's what I was craving- something homey and grounded; a world still full of people wrestling with tradition, religion and the future.