Laura P. (hemmputnam) reviewed on 2/21/2014 + 1113 more book reviews

I think this book covers an awful lot of ground and I loved the writing. I learned things about history I hadn't known before, I had fun thinking about comic books, and at it's heart, I felt like it was a book about the importance of stories. From the beginning when Joe escapes Europe hidden with a golem, a creature brought to life by letters, to the end where he "came to feel that the work - telling this story - was helping to heal him" it's a book that reminds us of the importance of narratives. There's even a comic book that Chabon wrote to be the comic book created by characters in this novel.

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