Okay, so SFGate.com misspells the title of the book (embarrassing), but Dan Cryer calls THE BOOK OF ARON by Jim Shepard “a transcendent fictional experience,” and “a far better work of fiction” than Elie Wiesel’s NIGHT, so I forgive the misspelling.
http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/The-Book-of-Aaron-by-Jim-Shepard-6292340.php