A review by snazel
Oskar and the Eight Blessings by Tanya Simon, Richard Simon

5.0

Despite his life absolutely sucking— he's just fled Germany in 1938, he's lost his family, he has to walk the length of Manhattan in December, he's starving— Oskar still manages to find eight good things as he walks, on the last evening of Hanukkah. I normally have trouble with books whose message is "you should look on the bright side!" but this one manages to not be trite. It's too real to be trite.