Oh my goodness, what a fantastic read. I don’t see a lot of (good) books about Jewish culture and folklore, and this was super refreshing. It is also a very good satire and commentary on the social issues going on for the last however many years. As a Jew, I can relate to a lot of this book.
But being Jewish is not even half of why I like this book so much. Not only do we get the story about Len and Miri, but we get histories about The Golem interspersed throughout the book — from biblical sources, from folkloric sources, and from history itself. And Mansbach connects each of these histories to the issues in this book.