The Afterlife of a Threadbare Jester

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

The Afterlife of a Threadbare Jester is a haunting portrait of endurance and exile in the wake of the Vietnam War. When a former intelligence officer is imprisoned in a communist reeducation camp, he must navigate years of forced labor, betrayal, and solitude. His attempts to escape lead only to deeper loss, and by the time he is released, his family has long fled to America, leaving him to confront the ruins of a life he no longer recognizes. At once brutal and poetic, this novel illuminates th