Etgar Keret

Etgar Keret is one of those people who just cannot be explained. While reading his stories, my mouth  drops in utter awe, as I cannot believe what I'm reading. He says some of the most vulgar inappropriate things, but is still somehow very relatable and deep. All of the Etgar Keret stories I've read have been his typical vulgar, funny one's, however, this time I ended up reading a collection of very depressing stories. One of the stories I read was called 'Surprise Egg'. It talks about a woman who was killed in a suicide bomb attack near a bus stop when she was 32. He compares her death and the findings in her body to a surprise egg, as in there were a lot of mysteries inside, such as the tumors they found. This disheartening story talks about the mourning that her family went to, and I think that this is especially relatable to today, Yom HaZikaron. Today we are commemorating the thousands of soldiers that have lost their lives defending our country. Despite Keret's strange sense of humor, I think he does a really good job of connecting his stories to life in Israel.