The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
By Michael Chabon
Review by Renata
Chabon’s epic adventure has all the Zap! Pow! energy of the golden age comic books created by the titular dynamic duo. Through the lives of Jewish cousins Josef Kavalier and Sam Clay – one an escapee from the Nazi threat in Europe, the other a second-generation Brooklyn immigrant – Chabon evokes the displacement and loss that both drives and haunts the Jewish diaspora in America. His writing is playful and virtuosic but the impulse to tell a great story is always in the driver’s seat – and pressing a foot to the accelerator! This Pulitzer Prize winner is a frequent entry on “Best Ever Books” lists and it’s certainly on mine.
