All in the Telling: a somewhat true story

"The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember."

All in the Telling, a novel by Saul Rubinek, weaves together a true story of miraculous survival, a murder mystery, an operatic family drama, and undying romance.

Also, it's very funny.

When Saul falls in love with a non-Jewish woman, he discovers his immigrant, Holocaust-survivor parents are not as "cool with it" as he said they'd be. Their reaction is biblical. Desperate to fix his...