The thing about this book is that you know what it's about when you go into it and then it just...keeps being about that.
And also it's an absolutely fascinating premise and Kleid plays out the implications incredibly deftly.
The community's callous response was *particularly* on point in all the ways that it excoriates the community while asking the reader to interrogate ALL different kinds of dishonesty and trickery.
And I found the language of "spiritually pure" to not actually reflect how the community talks around either yichus or good middot. But also I see what Kleid is trying to do. But it didn't feel authentic enough to me and I got a little grumpy about it.