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==Literary fiction==
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|author=Shalom Auslander
|title=Hope: a Tragedy
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Meet Solomon Kugel, who is almost universally known by his surname. He is about to join the list of kvetching Jewish heroes of comedy fiction, and at a very esteemed position in that list. He's a man who worries that by having had a kid he's betraying the boy's soul by bringing it into a world such as this. He's forced to live with his mother, who continually expects a second Holocaust and complains about suffering from the first, although she was not born then. He's faced with the eternal dilemma of not finding gluten-free matzo bread for his observances. He's moved to a rural location, and found houses like his are on the hit-list of an arsonist, but his new home has an even more unusual secret...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447207653</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Grace McCleen
