Review: A Horse Walks into a Bar by David Grossman and Jessica Cohen

Book supplied by Netgalley for an honest review.

My rating: 5 out of 5

It’s rare to find uniqueness in fiction, we’ve been making up stories for thousands of years after all, but David Grossman’s A horse Walks into a Bar squarely hits the mark. The story is framed around Dovaleh G’s stand-up routine in an industrial area of Israel, but as the night goes on, the comedy fades and the story of a parent’s funeral prevails. The narrator is an old friend of the comedian, one who was close, but who...