The world to come

Wow, Dara Horn's writing is phenomenal. It's not so much her style as it is her themes and thoughtfulness. She weaves Yiddish, as well as magical realism, into her plots with great craftiness. This particular book follows the complicated histories of friends, partners, families, and lovers in Vietnam, the former USSR, and modern-day U.S. I would recommend this book to anyone who's interested in family epics, books by John Steinbeck (this reminded me a lot of East of Eden), and novels loosely constructed on Judaism.