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Title: |
Rubble Children |
| Sub-title: |
Seven and a Half Stories |
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| By (author): |
Aaron Kreuter |
| ISBN10-13: |
1772127728 : 9781772127720 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
232 |
| Weight: |
.668 Kg. |
| Published: |
University of Alberta Press - July 2024 |
| List Price: |
20.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 5 |
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| In seven and a half interlinked stories, Aaron Kreuterâ 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 synagogueâ 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. |
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