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"those characters are indeed outrageous," or go, "I will
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vote for this book."
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So, the book kind of takes place in two different worlds.
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One is the world of Trachimbrod,
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which is a small shtetl in the
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eighteenth century, and also Jonathan Safran Foer's ancestral home.
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And the other world is kind of modern day Ukraine and it features
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Jonathan Safran Foer on a quest.
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As, I don't know if you Jews out there, I'm sure, at some
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point, have done this, as I have, been drawn to Slovakia or
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Ukraine to find the ancestral home,
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and that's what Jonathan Safran Foer