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(More customer reviews)I recommend this book to any serious reader who is interested in God, Judaism, the nature of good and evil, and who enjoys having the top of his or her head blown off (metaphorically speaking). Julius Lester's astonishing novel begins a little slow, but hold on tight, because things happen in this book that are both completely outrageous and completely acceptable. I guess it makes sense to call it magical realism, since the parts of this book that are the most magical and amazing are entirely plausible, practical, and real. His voice will be familiar to readers of his other work for adults and children: long talky "spoken" sentences breaking in every once in a while, metaphors nobody else dares to use, dead people who talk and who make good sense, and God not only as a writer, but as a writer fighting, over millenia, the frustration of wanting somebody, *somebody,* to think his stuff is worth reading. I am not going to give away the best parts of this book, but the crazier this book gets, the better it gets, and it gets very crazy indeed. Bravo.
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