{"product_id":"hope-a-tragedy-a-novel-1","title":"Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel","description":"A New York Times Notable Book 2012\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.\nTo begin again. To start anew. But it isn’t quite working out that way for Kugel…\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.\nHope: A Tragedy is a hilarious and haunting examination of the burdens and abuse of history, propelled with unstoppable rhythm and filled with existential musings and mordant wit. It is a comic and compelling story of the hopeless longing to be free of those pasts that haunt our every present.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 159448838X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: RDV.159448838X.LN\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Like New\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Auslander, Shalom\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\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 book is in like new condition. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Reliant Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47636806631601,"sku":"RDV.159448838X.LN","price":11.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0544\/8872\/7729\/files\/159448838X-0_ca6c62a2-226c-4775-a37d-7e435a5b38f3.jpg?v=1782323123","url":"https:\/\/www.reliantbookstore.com\/products\/hope-a-tragedy-a-novel-1","provider":"Reliant Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}