Brilliant, funny, surprising. And easier than a Polish vacation.

Fairly obvious if you’re paying attention early on...the author makes a mistake by offering a little too much with one character’s tiny correction. Otherwise, the book is the musings of a stereotypical “crazy old cat lady”; not much insight to be gleaned nor good humor to be found. I enjoyed it mostly for its portrayal of a tucked-away small town and its surrounding outposts on the Czech/Polish border.The translation seems a little uneven sometimes; though I don’t read the native language it was written in, certain lines just come across as oddly translated.