The pleasure of Brodesser-Akner''s writing is her ability to make us consider a weighty subject in a way that feels thrillingly original . . . Greatness comes so often at the expense of what is enjoyable. Long Island Compromise is both, and then some

Vorwort
From the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble comes a darkly exhilarating new novel about an American family and its inheritance - the safety and wealth that they fought for, and the precarity of their survival that is their legacy

Autorentext

Taffy Brodesser-Akner is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. Fleishman Is in Trouble, her first novel, was a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, and was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. The TV adaptation from FX, created and executive produced by Taffy, was nominated for seven Emmys.

• Long Island Compromise* is her second novel.

  Klappentext

  *From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble*, longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020

  'The status book you'll want to be seen with' Stylist**

  In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway in the nicest part of the nicest part of Long Island. He is brutalised, held for ransom and then returned to his family. Miraculously, Carl, his wife and his three kids are left to move on with their lives, and resume their prized places in the ongoing saga of the American dream.

  But nearly forty years later, when Carl's mother dies, the trauma that has been bubbling beneath the Fletchers' lives all this time surfaces at last. It becomes apparent that Carl has been quietly pursuing closure to the kidnapping for all these years, and his wife and children must face that the money that they believed bought them safety was actually never capable of doing any such thing.

  Long Island Compromise spans generations, winding through decades of history all the way through to the wild present, dealing along the way with all the mainstays of American Jewish life and the timeless questions about wealth, trauma, and the American soul.

  'This book is DYNAMITE' Caitlin Moran
  'Very, very good' Elizabeth Day
  'Sprawling yet nimble' The New York Times
  'A lip-smacking tale' Guardian
  'Substantive and profound' Cathy Rentzenbrink
  '[A] scabrous satire' New Yorker

  Zusammenfassung
  From the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble comes a darkly exhilarating new novel about an American family and its inheritance - the safety and wealth that they fought for, and the precarity of their survival that is their legacy