A review by jessrock
Never Mind The Goldbergs by Matthue Roth

4.0

I have little tolerance for hipster YA books about characters who are so painfully cool that they couldn't possibly exist in the real world, and this one started out looking like it was going to be exactly that, but then took a turn for the interesting and kept me sucked in the whole way through. The book is about a teenage Orthodox Jew who, through a series of coincidences, ends up getting a summer job as the only actual Jew on the set of a Hollywood sitcom about an Orthodox family. It turns out to be a very good coming-of-age tale that I thought dealt very nicely with the issue of caring deeply about your religion while trying to figure out yourself and the rest of the world.