How good is 'Everything is Illuminated' by Jonathan Safran Foer?

I bought it during summer and still haven't got around to reading it. I was glued to Jodi Picoult's novels instead. Now i find myself having to write a term paper about 3 books that have changed my life and truth is only 2 books have done that. They are 'The 5 People You Meet in Heaven' by Mitch Albom and 'Auschwitz: A New History' by Laurence Rees. I was wondering If this could be a life changing book, at least to a small extent.