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STARRED REVIEW

The Laughter

Sonora Jha’s characters represent vastly disparate political ideas, but she handles each of them with great precision and care. With this novel, she offers us a creative window into the sociopolitical dynamics that continue to reinforce cultural divisions in this country.

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Review of ‘The Laughter’

Essayist, novelist and Seattle University professor Sonora Jha follows up her acclaimed memoir, How to Raise a Feminist Son (2021), with her second novel, The Laughter, a masterfully told, thrilling investigation of privilege, heritage and exoticisation set against the backdrop of the American college campus. 

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Interview with Sonora Jha

The author of How to Raise a Feminist Son sharpens the campus obsession novel into a brilliant indictment of exoticization.

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