I’m trying to recall how I went about choosing to read Good as Gold when I was last at the library, but to save my life I can’t. I really think that it was a yellow colored book. I just suppose I wanted to read a book with a yellow cover this time.
As it turns out, this was a pretty interesting book. While I can’t relate directly to growing up Jewish in America, there was far too many similarities to the main characters family and my own. The crazy and dysfunctional family who was obsessed with food was all too familiar to me.
This was not at all what I was expecting it to be, and I was glad that was so. Very humorous and disturbingly dark. The author clearly wasn’t a fan of Kissinger (then again, who really was).
Sadly though this is fiction, I’ve seen way too many instances of complete fools advancing far in life. Very humorous to read it in action.