Extremely Safran and Incredibly Foer
What a time to be alive for fans of the Big Important Novel.
It is, at times, also pretty goodif not always enjoyable.
His grandfather Isaac is a Holocaust survivor whos considering killing himself.
And I havent even mention the Blochs three kids and Jacobs beloved dog.
Foer has a knack for making minutiae moving.
Then comes the rest.
Israel is hit with an existential crisis, and so are Foers characters as their individual anxieties turn universal.
The short version: Jacob uses the embattled Middle Eastern country as a proxy for his embattled family.
