A review by minty
The Lost Shtetl by Max Gross

3.0

I really, really loved the first, I don't know, third of this book. It had shades of the movie Being There (though that movie made me very very nervous for the guy, and this book did not), mixed with a book I was obsessed with as a kid, The Hunky Dory Dairy (about a weird portal back in time to a farm). This book is NOT magical realism, which made it all the more fun as it explored what happens when a village IS discovered many many years after the fact. However, the last parts just felt plodding, though it did make effort to tie things up and connect it all back to itself.