{"product_id":"hope-a-tragedy-a-novel","title":"Hope: a Tragedy: A Novel","description":"A hilarious and haunting examination of the burdens and abuse of history, propelled with unstoppable rhythm and filled with existential musings and mordant wit.\n\nThe rural town of Stockton, New York, is famous for nothing: no one was born there, no one died there, nothing of any historical import at all has ever happened there, which is why Solomon Kugel, like other urbanites fleeing their pasts and histories, decided to move his wife and young son there. To begin again. To start anew. But it isn’t quite working out that way for Kugel…\n\nHis ailing mother stubbornly holds on to life, and won’t stop reminiscing about the Nazi concentration camps she never actually suffered through. To complicate matters further, some lunatic is burning down farmhouses just like the one Kugel bought, and when, one night, he discovers history—a living, breathing, thought-to-be-dead specimen of history—hiding upstairs in his attic, bad quickly becomes worse.\n\nAuslander gives us a comic and compelling story of the hopeless longing to be free of those pasts that haunt our every present.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1594486468\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1594486468.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Auslander, Shalom\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This copy has clearly been enjoyed—expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41455986343994,"sku":"DBV.1594486468.A","price":7.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1594486468-0.jpg?v=1781071812","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/hope-a-tragedy-a-novel","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}