Hope: A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander Edition:Hardcover from an early‑twentieth‑century family of

from an early‑twentieth‑century family of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants on the Lower East Side to a kingdom of his own making in Las Vegas

" —Publishers Weekly

as a reporter of the provinces in the early twentieth century

Photographs of lives lived

an Ethiopian mother in modern Israel

Hope: A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander Edition:Hardcover from an early‑twentieth‑century family ofThe bestselling debut novel from Shalom Auslander, the darkly comic author of Foreskins Lament and Beware of God. Hope: 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. The rural town of Stockton, New York, is