A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a βgeniusβ (TheNew York Times) and master storyteller.
The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keretβs son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry. Lev is born in the midst of a terrorist attack. Etgarβs father gets cancer. The threat of constant war looms over their home and permeates daily life.
What emerges from this dark reality is a series of sublimely absurd ruminations on everything from Etgarβs three-year-old sonβs impending military service to the terrorist mind-set behind Angry Birds. Thereβs Levβs insistence that he is a cat, releasing him from any human responsibilities or rules. Etgarβs siblings, all very different people who have chosen radically divergent paths in life, come together after his fatherβs shivah to experience the grief and love that tie a family together forever. This wise, witty memoirβEtgarβs first nonfiction book published in America, and told in his inimitable styleβis full of wonder and life and love, poignant insights, and irrepressible humor.
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