This sentence has the words, "Sean Penn" and "novel" in it. So you know it's going to be bad.
This is the craziest anti-Trump rant published by a mainstream publisher (Simon and Schuster) not written by Keith Olbermann. It's so deranged that it makes Olbermann look like Robert Frost. The reviews of Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff are generally terrible. But it was praised by Salman Rushdie and Susan Silverman, a celebrity anti-Israel activist.
Sean Penn writes incoherently. His sentences are stuffed with obscure words dug up from the bottom of a thesaurus and then awkwardly arranged for the worst possible effect. And he insists on footnoting his gibberish because the one thing a bad novel needs is footnotes.
But here are two in particular that translate from, what the novel calls, "Jew-speak".
The scene has Penn's protagonist encountering a man named Fischel who had just escaped from a Bolivian prison and speaks in an exaggerated Yiddish accent. Or, to Penn, Jew-speak".
Fischel is described as whining about the wife that had "left him during his long Bolivian imprisonment". Penn's protagonist takes Fischel with him.
There's an obvious real-life parallel.
Jacob Ostreicher, an Orthodox Jewish businessman, had been wrongly imprisoned in Bolivia. Penn helped secure his release. The story was incredible, but Penn has managed to taint it in an ugly way.
Simon and Schuster famously canceled Milo's book deal. But they seem okay with the numerous racial slurs in Penn's book. Including gratuitous stuff like this.