{"product_id":"rubble-children-seven-and-a-half-stories-9781772127720","title":"Rubble Children: Seven and a Half Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn seven and a half interlinked stories, Aaron Kreuter's \u003cem\u003eRubble Children\u003c\/em\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eRubble Children\u003c\/em\u003e is a scream of Jewish rage, a smoky exhalation of Jewish joy, a vivid dream of better worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAaron Kreuter is the author of four books, including the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award shortlisted poetry collection Shifting Baseline Syndrome. He lives in Toronto and teaches at Trent University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Alberta Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50914839920914,"sku":"9781772127720","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_23c06e2c-5edf-486a-9047-cb7b57b961e4.jpg?v=1738820871","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/rubble-children-seven-and-a-half-stories-9781772127720","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}