Kreuter Aaron - Rubble Children Seven And A Half Stories - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Rubble Children Seven And A Half Stories
Author(s): Kreuter Aaron
Publisher: University Of Alberta Press
Barcode: 9781772127720
Pages: 232 Pages
Publication Date: 7/15/2024
Series: Robert Kroetsch Series
Category: Short Stories