Shalom Auslander’s new novel Hope: A Tragedy takes a calculated risk: It’s a neurotic, bizarre story that mines the Holocaust for humor. The plot involves a paranoid middle-aged Jew, obsessed with death and his own mortality, who discovers an old woman hiding out in the attic of his new house. The woman–a crabby, disagreeable writer–turns out to be Anne Frank. Auslander’s addendum to Frank’s saga–one […]