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Bidgood, Holly
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Fiction
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2019
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Wild Pressed Books
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English
β 134 KB
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The Laughter
β Scribed by Sonora Jha
- Book ID
- 111247065
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Year
- 2023
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 691 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780063240285
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β¦ Synopsis
"Sonora Jha expertly inhabits the perspective of a man so terrified of the old world slipping away, he can't see the ground shifting beneath his feet. A deliciously sharp, mercilessly perceptive exploration of power, The Laughter explores how 'otherness' is both fetishized and demonized, and what it means to love something --a person, a country--that does not love you back."--Celeste Ng, New York Times-bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts
A white male college professor develops a dangerous obsession with his new Pakistani colleague in this modern, iconoclastic novel.
Dr. Oliver Harding, a tenured professor of English, is long settled into the routines of a divorced, aging academic. But his quiet, staid life is upended by his new colleague, Ruhaba Khan, a dynamic Pakistani Muslim law professor.
Ruhaba unexpectedly ignites Oliver's long-dormant passions, a secret desire that quickly...
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