This story is told through the eyes of Jonas both as a child and as an adult going through his own marital problems with his wife Angela.
The story of his parents centers around one fateful road trip in his parent's life where it is doomed to fail from the start. Playing counterpart to his parent's story is his own relationship with Angela: the courtship, the marriage and the breakup.
I found this book interesting to read because of the differences in the relationships between Mariam and Yosef and Jonas and Angela. But also because of some of the similarities in Jonas' aloofness that you could see he got from his father. This aloofness was partially at fault for the demise of his marriage to Angela.
Most interesting was the young boy Jonas who was at the heart of this book and who was so desperately trying not to be destroyed by his fighting parents.
Rating: 7 / 10
ISBN: 9781594487705
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Edition: 1st Edition