This book had a ton of characters and story lines and kept switching back and forth among the various character view points. I didn't figure out what was happening until the last third of the book. The writer attempts humor but it's so hard to follow that I rarely "LOL." If you can perform intense concentration and like to read about Russian Jews and their friends and family, this book is for you. I did find learning more about the Jewish culture quite interesting though!

Difficult to follow, many of the sentences made no sense especially the Russian soul part. At the end I wasn't clear what the author was trying to say about being an immigrant in America.