The seven good years are those between the birth of his son and the death of his father. Like Keret's fiction, this book is a series of short essays that are broken up into "years". Some essays are about his family, some about very random events, all are pure genius. He tells of his trip to Europe as a kid and the thing that left the biggest impression that he was given a tiny can of Coca-Cola and a mini box of cornflakes on the airplane. He doesn't want to brag but he has managed a special status among parents at the playground because he is a man who is hardly ever working. When asked by his mother about the game Angry Birds, he learns the slightly distressing fact that his wife that she plays because "I love killing things."
Keret has become one of my all time favorites. I have Kathleen to thank for introducing him to me.
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