Hope: A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Certainly one of the oddest – yet strangely engaging and enjoyable – or at least thought provoking. The reader (like the protagonist – at least for a while) is really left questioning what is really happening – what is real and what is the product of strained circumstances.
Fleeing the city a man, wife and son along with his mother look for a potential new start in the town of Stockton and then a discovery in the attic leads to an increasingly fraught series of circumstances.
The author does a superb job of managing he various voices – not just of the characters, but within the mind go the main protagonist. Colourful writing and a rather wry dark sense of humour make this a unique and appreciated read.