The Book Of Aron: A Novel

"Jim Shepard’s latest novel tells the story of Aron, a Polish boy living in Warsaw when the Nazis invade. The book shares some predictable traits with other works of fiction about the Holocaust — it’s horrifying, brutal and angry. But Shepard’s pitch-black humor and his avoidance of artificial epiphanies are original. It’s an immensely rewarding, shocking and beautiful book."