"...Gradually, my wife also began to realize the advantages of our shabby existence. After she found a not exactly reliable news site warning that Iran might already have nuclear weapons, she decided it was time to stop washing dishes. 'There's nothing more frustrating than getting nuked while you're putting the soap in the dishwasher,' she explained. 'From now on, we only wash dishes on an immediate-need basis.' This 'If I'm going up in flames anyway, then I won't go as a sucker' philosophy extended well beyond the dishwasher edict."

This memoir reads as a collection of short stories. Etgar Keret looks at seven years of his life, intertwining stories from his family history. It's lighter in a sense because it's written with humor, but that didn't downplay the harsh realities of his life in the Middle East. I lol'd a lot.