Stranger in My Own Country: a Jewish Family in Modern Germany / Yascha Mounk 261 p.

Extremely interesting and readable, but a little hard for me to review.  Mounk is now a graduate student in the United States, but was born and raised in various parts of Germany, after his mother's family migrated there from Poland after the war.  Mounk narrates his increasing sense as he matured that as a Jew, he would never truly be German as well.  Partly a recounting of personal anecdotes in which he experiences philo-Semitism (as opposed to the anti-Semitism of earlier generations), and partly a sketch of Germany's postwar history and relationship to its past, Mounk is convincing and graceful in his presentation.  It's difficult to evaluate how important some of the trends he describes truly are, in particular what he describes as Germany's recent insistence on reaching the 'finish line' of apologizing for their past.

For me, the most powerful part of Mounk's writing is his comparison between German/Jewish relations and Black/White tensions in the United States.  He is thoughtful enough not to overstate his case here, but there is a lot of food for thought.