What do you recommend?

“Daniel Torday’s The Last Flight of Poxl West is a cleverly nested meta-novel. A grown man describes his boyhood experience of reading his dashing uncle’s memoir — a book within the book about being a Jewish RAF bomber pilot during World War II. Toward the end of the novel, Uncle Poxl tells Eli, ‘That is the very crux of telling a story: to tell it better,’ and Torday understands this, using crisply beautiful prose to move us along a narrative that is wry and heartbreaking.”

Janis Cooke Newman, author of A Master Plan for Rescue

This story was originally published July 10, 2015 at 8:01 AM with the headline "What do you recommend?."