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The rural town of Stockton, New York, is well-known for nothing: Nobody was born there, no one died there, little or nothing of any historical import whatsoever has ever occurred there, which explains why Solomon Kugel, like other urbanites fleeing their pasts and histories, decided to move his better half and young child there. To begin again. To start out anew. But it isn't quite training this way. His ailing mom stubbornly holds on to life, and won't stop reminiscing about the Nazi attention camps she never actually suffered through. To complicate issues further, some lunatic is using down farmhouses just like the one he bought. And when, one night time, Kugel discovers background - a living, deep breathing, thought-to-be-dead specimen of background - concealing upstairs in his attic, bad quickly becomes worse. The critically acclaimed copy writer Shalom Auslander's debut novel is a hilarious and disquieting study of the burdens and maltreatment of background, propelled with unstoppable rhythm and filled with existential musings and mordant wit. It is a comic and compelling report of the hopeless longing to be free of those pasts that haunt our every present.
