A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka

I'd heard a lot of positive comments about this book but when I finally got around to reading it I was a little disappointed. In my view the lighthearted writing style, although funny, distracts from the subject matter, which is actually pretty serious in places, dealing with family memories, identity, and the impact of wartime traumas on adult relationships in addition to the main plotline about two women's attempts to disentangle their elderly father from a bizarre marriage.