[Indian Express]Sonora Jha’s The Laughter is a sharp takedown of the facade of liberal academic spaces
Sonora Jha’s The Laughter is set on a college campus in Seattle in 2016. Debates around Trump-or-Clinton, race, class, LGBTQ+ rights, feminism, and the like, animate all students. Amidst this, we meet Dr Oliver Harding, an ageing, White, English professor who narrates the novel with a confessional tone — ...