A review by sunfishe
The Lost Shtetl by Max Gross

4.0

such a great work of speculative fiction. what started off feeling like a goofy fantasy quickly devolved into confronting the brutal reality of the world. this book goes deep on historical revisionism, antisemitism, misogyny, and the institutions holding all of these systems in power.

the ambiguity of the ending was disappointing at first, but as I sit with it i am glad to imagine Kreskol, returned to it's original form somewhere in the woods, and pesha somewhere far off finally freed, and yankel somewhere between these two worlds.

i am interested in the identity of the narrator, this unknown character who was present for so much of the novel.