How to Find Your Way in the Dark by Derek B. Miller

 

This is an interesting and very amusing book. Not goofy-funny like Christopher Moore or Terry Pratchett, but still soaked in humor. One of the blurbs uses the word "Jew-noir," and it's very noir and very Jewish. It's also, I think, something of a bildungsroman, though that's not a position I'm willing to die in a ditch over. While there's pain and vengeance in the novel, it's much more lighthearted than, for instance, S.A. Cosby; that's fine, there's room for them both.