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Rubble Children: Seven and a Half Stories

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Availability:In StockContributor:Aaron KreuterSeries:Robert KroetschPublish date:2024-07-15Pages:232
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Alberta PressISBN-13:9781772127720ISBN-10:1772127728UPC:9781772127720Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Jewish, Short Stories (single author), World LiteratureBook Topic:CanadaSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.53 inchesWeight:0.6614Product ID:SC3Y1BTP4B

In seven and a half interlinked stories, Aaron Kreuter's Rubble Children tackles Jewish belonging, settler colonialism, Zionism and anti-Zionism, love requited and unrequited, and cannabis culture, all drenched in suburban wonder and dread. Sometimes realist, sometimes not, the book revolves around Kol B'Seder, a fictional Reform synagogue in the Toronto suburb of Thornhill. In these stories, the locked basement room in the home of the synagogue's de facto patriarch opens onto a life-altering windfall; visions of an omnipotent third temple terrify; rhythms of the Jewish and scholastic year collide in bong rips and hash hits; alternate versions of Israel/Palestine play out against domestic drama. In the title story, a group of Jewish girls obsessed with the Holocaust discover that they are far from the only people who live in the rubble of history. Engaging, funny, dark, surprising, Rubble Children is a scream of Jewish rage, a smoky exhalation of Jewish joy, a vivid dream of better worlds.

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Alberta PressISBN-13:9781772127720ISBN-10:1772127728UPC:9781772127720Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Jewish, Short Stories (single author), World LiteratureBook Topic:CanadaSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.53 inchesWeight:0.6614Product ID:SC3Y1BTP4B
Aaron Kreuter is the author of four books, including the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award shortlisted poetry collection Shifting Baseline Syndrome. He lives in Toronto and teaches at Trent University.
Publisher: University of Alberta Press

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