Matthew Daub writes with Hemingway-like clarity, brevity, and force, and speaks with warm, kind-hearted Socratic wisdom.
His debut novel, Leaving Eastern Parkway, is an immersive, improbably entertaining journey of self-discovery. It is deeply reflective, emotive, and thought-provoking, but also remarkably fast-paced and accessible despite being peppered with Yiddish and Hebrew words throughout (for which there is, thankfully, a glossary). In fact, this makes it feel more real.