This was an interesting read. It follows in the footsteps of Uprooted, where Novik started to re-examine Eastern European fairytales. I found Uprooted quite entertaining, so Spinning Silver was an easy sell. In this book the author goes even deeper into the lives of ordinary people in an extraordinary world. We start by following Miryem, the daughter of Jews living in some small village in some Eastern European-ish country. Their world is very familiar, except for the presence of supernatural creatures, the Staryk. Throughout the book we see many first person perspectives, besides Miryem's. The idea was, I guess, to show how people in fairytales might experience the events of their story. When the storyteller talks about "the moneylender's daughter" we don't get her backstory, her thoughts, her actions. In this book we do and I liked that.