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Name: Hope
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: Shalom Auslander

Relocating his family to an unremarkable rural town in New York in the hopes of starting over, Solomon Kugel must cope with his depressive mother, a local arsonist, and the discovery of a believed-dead historical specimen hiding in his attic.

First publish date: 2011

Authors: Shalom Auslander

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