The Laughter - Sonora Jha
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Christopher Grove
Tags: General Fiction, Novel, Contemporary, Adults
Sonora Jha expertly inhabits the perspective of a man so terrified of the old world slipping away, he cant 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 somethinga person, a countrythat 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 Olivers long-dormant passions, a secret desire that quickly tips towards obsession after her teenaged nephew, Adil Alam, arrives from France to
