City of Laughter Audiobook

Ropshitz Poland was once known as the City of Laughter As this story opens an 18th century badchan a holy jester whose job is to make wedding guests laugh receives a visitation from a mysterious strangerbringing the laughter the people of Ropshitz desperately need and triggering a sequence of events that will reverberate across the coming century In the present day Shiva Margolin recovering from the heartbreak of her first big queer love and grieving the death of her beloved father struggles to connect with her guarded mother who spends most of her time at the local funeral home A student of Jewish folklore Shiva seizes an opportunity to visit Poland hoping her familys mysteries will make more sense if she walks in the footsteps of her greatgrandmother Mira about whom no one speaks What she finds will make her question not only her past and her future but also her present An ambitious delirious novel that tangles with queerness spirituality and generational silence City of Laughter zigzags between our universe and a tapestry of real and invented Jewish folklore asking how far we can travel from the stories that have raised us without leaving them behind Electric and sharply intimate it announces Temim Fruchter as a fresh and assured new literary voice