{"product_id":"9780349704852","title":"City of Laughter","description":"Author: Temim Fruchter\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780349704852\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Dialogue\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 12 Mar 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 304 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editor's Choice | An \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature \u003c\/i\u003eBest Novel of the Year | A Most Anticipated Book from \u003ci\u003eNylon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThem\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStylecaster\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Electric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOur Culture\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Hey Alma\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Funny, beautifully crafted, rich with insight and wildly gripping.'\u003c\/b\u003e Andrea Lawlor, author of \u003ci\u003ePaul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Wonderful.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This stunning debut heralds an author to watch.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA rich and riveting debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood, half-hidden secrets and the fantastical visitation of a shapeshifting stranger over the course of 100 years.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCity of Laughter\u003c\/i\u003e follows a young queer woman stuck in a thicket of generational secrets back to her family's origins, where ancestral clues begin to reveal a lineage both haunted and shaped by desire.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRopshitz, Poland, was once known as the City of Laughter. As this story opens, an 18th-century badchan, a holy jester whose job is to make wedding guests laugh, receives a visitation from a mysterious stranger - bringing the laughter the people of Ropshitz desperately need, and triggering a sequence of events that will reverberate across the coming century.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the present day, Shiva Margolin, recovering from the heartbreak of her first big queer love and grieving the death of her beloved father, struggles to connect with her guarded mother, who spends most of her time at the local funeral home. A student of Jewish folklore, Shiva seizes an opportunity to visit Poland, hoping her family's mysteries will make more sense if she walks in the footsteps of her great-grandmother, Mira, about whom no one speaks.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat she finds will make her question not only her past and her future, but also her present. Electric and sharply intimate, \u003ci\u003eCity of Laughter\u003c\/i\u003e zigzags between our universe and a tapestry of real and invented Jewish folklore, asking how far we can travel from the stories that have raised us without leaving them behind.\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46482752831646,"sku":"ADS-9780349704852","price":34.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780349704852.jpg?v=1770351961","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780349704852","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}