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Hope a tragedy : a novel

Relocating his family to an unremarkable rural town in New York in the hopes of starting over, Solomon Kugel must cope with his depressive mother, a local arsonist, and the discovery of a believed-dead historical specimen hiding in his attic.

Main Author:	Auslander, Shalom.
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Riverhead Books, 2012.
Subjects:	Children of Holocaust survivors > Fiction. Jews > Fiction. New York (State) > Fiction. Domestic fiction > New York.

Summary:	Relocating his family to an unremarkable rural town in New York in the hopes of starting over, Solomon Kugel must cope with his depressive mother, a local arsonist, and the discovery of a believed-dead historical specimen hiding in his attic.
Physical Description:	292 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:	9781594488382 159448838X
Author Notes:	Shalom Auslander was raised in Monsey, New York. Nominated for the Koret Award for writers under thirty-five, he has published articles in Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Tablet, The New Yorker , and has had stories aired on NPR's This American Life . Auslander is the author of the short story collection Beware of God and the memoir Foreskin's Lament . He lives in New York City. To learn more about Shalom Auslander, please visit www.shalomauslander.com.

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