Hope: A Tragedy

Literary Satire Fiction

Author: Shalom Auslander

FROM THE CREATOR OF SHOWTIME’S “HAPPYISH”The bestselling debut novel from Shalom Auslander, the darkly comic author of Foreskin’s Lament and Beware of God.A New York Times Notable Book 2012 The 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 Solo….Read More

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