The town Anti-Semite is due for a come-uppance, but how can these little boys possibly take him on?

(from The Atlantic‘s Fiction Issue)

Excellent story. Strange and beautiful and harsh. Something like Fight Club meets Christmas Story, though, kinda not really. It’s got a when-we-were-young-and-stupid vibe to this, but I wouldn’t call it nostalgia.
There’s a battery of characters, some integral, who look like some kind of alternate-universe Justice League or A-Team. Assembled to right a wrong, however ill-equipped or wrong they may be.
In addition to a great story with lots of action, suspense, terror and some cool parts to cheer for, this was also an entrancing story to read on a line-by-line basis. It’s speckled with ancient Hebrew references and an unfolding that could be cribbed from a book of forgotten fables. Nice.