Amazing book alert!

I just finished Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer. Holy crap, you guys need to read this book!!

It's about a 20-year-old American man (fictional, but with the same name as the author) who goes to the Ukraine to try and find a woman who helped his grandfather escape the Nazis during WWII. That is the most basic element of the story, but there is really three stories in one. You get Jonathan's story as he searches for the then-girl who saved his grandfather; the story of the translator that Jonathan hires to navigate the Ukraine; and you also get the history of the village that Jonathan is decended from. The three stories are told interchangeably and the whole book is told in an incredibly unique way. I cannot tell very much without giving away the plot. But what you learn about Jonathan and the people he meets in the Ukraine is such an excellent story - it sucks you in and pulls you along, and you can't put the book down. It's one of the best books I've read in a long time. I don't own it, but Kyle does, so you can borrow it from him. I give the a book a 10 out of 10. Yes!