Fiction, Jewish or otherwise, needn't be in-your-face to be enjoyable and of literary merit. Dara Horn's well-received debut novel, In the Image, focuses not on liver-shtupping or Holocaust-related "shock" humour, but on biblical tropes, such as Job and, as the title suggests, the divine image in which, according to Genesis, we are all created--all without being sentimental or preachy. As anti-Semitism, the Israeli/Arab conflict, wallowing in Holocaust memories, and the "forbidden" aura around non-Jewish mates all fade from relevance, my intuition says that more Jewish authors like Horn will emerge, concentrating on the search for a meaningful (not necessarily Orthodox/Conservative/Reform) Jewish spiritual life.