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A New York Times Notable Book The rural town of Stockton, New York, is famous for nothing no one was born there, no one died there, nothing of any historical import at all has ever happened there, which is why Solomon Kugel, like other urbanites fleeing their pasts and histories, decided to move his wife and young son there. To begin again. To start anew. But it isnt quite working out that way for Kugel His ailing mother stubbornly holds on to life, and wont stop reminiscing about the Nazi concentration camps she never actually suffered through. To complicate matters further, some lunatic is burning down farmhouses just like the one Kugel bought, and when, one night, he discovers historya living, breathing, thought-to-be-dead specimen of historyhiding upstairs in his attic, bad quickly becomes worse.