A review by hogwash1
Hope: A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander

1.0

Too glib the way that... something that's too glib is too glib, is how the narrator would probably put it. Not a novel so much as a comic monologue, but the voice and jokes get old fast, there's no depth to any of the characters, the one potential interesting plot element turns, predictably, into a joke. There are almost brilliant passages and ideas that could have been explored instead of joked about, but that's not enough for a book. Pass.