RaveJewish Book Council...[a] powerful, gorgeous new novel ... The question of what is real and what isn’t, and if such distinctions even can be made, is at the heart of Mourning ... the questions raised in the novel—such as the veracity of a tragic family tale that our narrator vividly remembers hearing as a boy and that no one in his family can later recall—make us ponder the fact that so much of who we are and what we believe is the product of story, coincidence, and even misunderstanding ... Halfon gives an unforgettable, haunting voice to lesser-known populations of the Jewish diaspora ... evocative images and lyrical musings.
