The World That We Knew

Thrilling and devastating in equal measure. This is such an interesting and deeply-situated take on the story of the golem, which I loved. I loved how deeply Jewish this novel is, which seems like an obvious thing to say, but I find a lot of Holocaust fiction is sort of divorced from Jewish culture and faith because it is interested in the horrors and violence of the Shoah, and I think Hoffman did a great job of writing a Jewish magical realism novel set during the Holocaust, rather than a Holocaust novel that happens to be magical realist.