G.K. Chesterton, Tremendous trifles (1909)
N. Mahfouz, Palace of Desire (1957)
M. Forsyth, A short history of drunkenness (2017)
This was easy. I liked everything I read this month. Any of them could have been Book of the Month at other times, but Hoffman's book is outstanding. It's easily the best memoir I've read all year. Possibly the best I've ever read. The base subject is good - an early life in post war Polish Jewry is fascinating - and well done. But it is lifted onto another level by her experience emigrating at thirteen to Canada and the dislocation and distance from her original culture that thus occurs. Astoundingly conceived and excellently done.
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