Sjarm 13, a reminder

When speaking with Sjarm a couple of weeks ago he asked me if I knew some books for him to read. Well, the one book that came to mind almost immediately was The Plot Against America by Philip Roth. This was far out the best novel I read last year (or was it the year before?).
The Plot Against America is sort of a coming-of-age story (which Sjarm enjoys reading he said) it begins like this:
'Fear presides over these memories. A perpetual fear. Of course no childhood is without its terrors, yet I wonder if I would have been a less frightened boy if Lindbergh hadn't been president or if I hadn't been the offspring of Jews.'
In short this is the story:
When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. Not only had Lindbergh, in a nationwide radio address, publicly blamed the Jews for selfishly pushing America toward a pointless war with Nazi Germany, but upon taking officece as the thirty-third president of the United States, he negotiated a cordial "understanding" with Adolf Hitler, whose conquest of Europe and virulent anti-Semitic policies he appeared to accept without difficulty. What then followed in America is the historical setting for this startling new book by Pulitzer Prize–winner Philip Roth, who recounts what it was like for his Newark family — and for a million such families all over the country — during the menacing years of the Lindbergh presidency, when American citizens who happened to be Jews had every reason to expect the worst.

I've read several other Roth' books but this one really is the best he has written so far. Where most of his books have the tendency to get pretty boring. In The Plot Against America Roth really tells the story from the boys point of view making it much more exciting to read. So Sjarm wherever you are pick up a copy.