More like 3.5 stars. 4 for the occasional well turned phrase, 3 for the story and dialogue. A better family drama than Zoë Heller's The Believers, but inferior to Zeruya Shalev's The Remains of Love, to cite recent examples. Note on the audiobook: when a book makes frequent use of foreign vocabul...
As a child, Ben Suskind wonders how his family came together. What if he hadn't been adopted by Jews, what if his brother, Jonathan, had been adopted by a different couple? He and Jonathan fantasize about being the secret sons of Sandy Koufax, of coming to earth in a spaceship. They make blood pa...
From the moment he was born, Julian Wainwright has lived a life of Waspy privilege. The son of a Yale-educated investment banker, he grew up in a huge apartment on Sutton Place, high above the East River, and attended a tony Manhattan private school. Yet, more than anything, he wants to get out–o...