Play Book Tag discussion

This book wasn't on my radar, so happy my friends are reading it this month!

Nine-year-old Philp is a Jewish boy living in New Jersey in 1942. In this alternative history, a famous man beats Roosevelt in the presidential election and let's just say it's not a good time to be a Muslim I mean Jew in the United States.

For a lot of the story the alternative history was more of a backdrop and the book reminded me more of nostalgia, something like A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (which I didn't like so don't take this as a recommendation that if you liked ATGiB you'll like this). Towards the last 1/3 of the book the alternative history took over and I thought it was quite a good imagining.

There's definitely some relevance with what's going on politically right now.

I listened to the audio. It's first person told by the 9-year and as per usual the narrator was an older man. In spite of that, I thought he was the perfect narrator and now that the story is over I kind of miss him.

Really good book, and I'm so glad I read it.

So glad you liked this!! I will be diving into it as soon as I finish this G.D. Outlander book that I have been reading for 6 weeks....

I read this when it was first published, and I thought it was great. And by the way I loved A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

I have it out from the library to potentially join you guys, but my month is already stacked. Compelling review though...

Reading it right now and enjoying it.

Nicole D. wrote: "This book wasn't on my radar, so happy my friends are reading it this month!

Nine-year-old Philp is a Jewish boy living in New Jersey in 1942. In this alternative history, a famous man beats Roose..."

That's the one thing that annoys me--older people doing first person narrations of children (unless, of course, it's told as history when the narrator is old). If he's nine, why have a man's voice????

This one sounds really good. I probably won't get to it this month, but it's on my TBR now. My tremendously, toppling, TBR.