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- Part speculative queer family history and part folktale, City of Laughter is an electric, deftly braided novel of four generations of women in one family grappling with half-hidden secrets, generational silence, and displacement—only it’s upended by a shapeshifting, gender-bending trickster figure who appears in each of their lives. At once riotous, irreverent, and unfailingly human, City of Laughter is deeply rooted in Jewish culture, imagination, and resistance, weaving together the half-forgotten stories from the Ropshitz village, Polish history, and Fruchter’s own family lore.
- City of Laughter breathes new life into the lineage of literary fiction influenced by the Jewish folk tradition, and it grapples seriously but also playfully with the place of desire, and of queerness and queer people, within spiritual life and the scholarly tradition that infuses it.
- City of Laughter is also a book about books, sending, for example, Albert Einstein on a drink date with the fascinating Yiddish playwright S. An-sky, and plunging into the lost feminist history of figures like Isaac Bashevis Singer’s brilliant sister, whose work is lost to many non-specialists.
- Fruchter has traveled to Poland twice, once as a drummer for a feminist punk band and once as a student studying Yiddish. Her travels led her to Ropshitz and Warsaw, both of which have thriving Jewish communities. City of Laughter is partly based on those travels and her experiences, but it is also, in part, inspired by Fruchter’s great-grandmother, who was born in Ropshitz.
- Temim is a connected author and literary citizen, both online and in real life. In addition to folks like Garth Greenwell, Andrea Lawlor, Brandon Taylor, Sarah Thankam Mathews, Jordy Rosenberg, and Danielle Evans—some of whom we hope will blurb her—she is also already on the radar of critics like Adam Dalva and has already been chosen for a Publishers Weekly “Writers to Watch,” likely to run late summer.
- We have just received our first blurb, from Matt Bell, and in addition to those mentioned previously it’s also out with Kristen Arnett, Francisco Goldman, Torrey Peters, Rumaan Alam, and Lidia Yuknavitch.
- Fruchter is a recipient of the 2020 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and she has received fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and Vermont Studio Center. She was the 2020 First Place Fiction Award Winner for both New South and American Literary Review. Her writing was also featured in the anthology Keep Your Wives Away from Them (North Atlantic Books), which won the 2011 Golden Crown Literary Award. Her writing has been featured on NPR’s “Stories of the Season” for Hanukkah and Ursa Story, a short fiction podcast hosted by Deesha Philyaw and Dawnie Walton; and has also appeared in PANK, The Texas Review, Moonpark Review, and The Rumpus, among others.
- Body Split, a chapbook of short poetic essays/prose poems, featured a piece written by Fruchter and another writer, Sarah Tourjee. It was published in a single volume by Anomalous Press with a limited print run of 200 copies. While it is not a work of fiction, we share this as it may turn up in some databases.
- Format: Inbunden
- ISBN: 9780802161284
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 384
- Utgivningsdatum: 2024-01-16
- Förlag: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press