I just finished listening to Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon.
Loved it.
Josef Kavalier is whisked away from his family in Holocaust Poland to America in Houdiniesque fashion and ends up sharing a bed with his cousin Sammy in his aunt's Brooklyn apartment .
Together they plot their rise to fame and financial fortune in the comic book empire of Gotham City.
Yiddish humor, a love story and an inside view of the comic book industry--the birth of Superman and Batman and Robin--and life in New York City during the late 30's and 40's during the outbreak of WWII. What's not to like?
I got introduced to Chabon by reading The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (read "Jewish Mafia") and was eager for more.
It's easy to see why this one got a Pulitzer.
Looking forward to "The Yiddish Policeman's Union" . . .
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