“J”
by Howard Jacobson
2014/ 342 pages
rating:8.5

WHAT HAPPENED, IF IT HAPPENED happened quite a long time ago, probably a couple generations, and now folks are “sorry.” They’re “sorry” all the time. But in a ver small town in the southwestern corner of England a young man, Kevern (Coco)  Cohen, and a young woman, Ailinn Solomons (which may or may not be their genealogical names) meet and wonder.

Folks who are “different” are suspected of something, knowing something, having something – they are watched closely. And after we’re more thoroughly introduced to some of the other characters and the nature of the thing that didn’t happen, it gets dark and really quite hard to read for awhile. >>>>MORE>>>>