Ron Peters's Reviews > Call it Sleep

This is a 1930s American novel about the young son of Polish Jewish immigrants growing up in early 20th century New York. Large parts of it are written the Modernist style with passages of stream of consciousness and dialogue imitating the broken English spoken in many different European accents around New York. I had very mixed feelings about it. Bits of it were engaging and the climax (the last 10%) was exciting and moving, but it didn't make up for slogging my way through most of the other 90%. I’m interested to see which of my Jewish friends, if any, has read it and, if so, what they made of it.