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Long Island Compromise
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠An exhilarating novel about one American family and the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Oprah Daily, The New Yorker, Time, The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, Town & Country, New York Post, Harperâs Bazaar, Elle, Parade, Kirkus Reviews
âThe best book about America Iâve read lately . . . The novel concerns being Jewish, being an immigrant, class, family, wealth, and how that wealth can disfigure people. Itâs all terribly funny, which always helps.ââDavid Sedaris for Time, â25 Books That Capture This American Momentâ
âJoins the pantheon of great American novels.ââLos Angeles Times
âExuberant and absorbing . . . a big old-fashioned social novel.ââThe Atlantic
In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, beaten, and ransomed. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, and the family moves on, comforted in the realization that if their money was what endangered them, it is also what assured their safety.
But forty years later, itâs clear that nobody ever got over anything, after all. Carl has secretly sought closure for decades, while his wife, Ruth, has spent her potential protecting her husbandâs emotional health. Their three grown children arenât doing much better: Nathanâs chronic anxiety keeps him from advancing at his law firm; Beamer, a Hollywood screenwriter, will consume anythingâdrugs, food, womenâto numb his terror; and Jenny is so bent on proving that sheâs not a product of her familyâs pathology that she has come to define it. When they learn that the family fortune has dwindled to just about nothing, they must face questions about the part wealth has played in their livesâ successes and failures and confront the trauma that has stunted each of them.
With depth and surprising hilarity, Long Island Compromise winds through one familyâs history, all the way to the outrageous present, confronting the mainstays of American Jewish life: tradition, the pursuit of success, the terror of history, old wivesâ tales, evil eyes, achievement, boredom, pyramid schemes, right-wing capitalists, beta blockers, and the mostly unspoken love and shared experience that unite a family forever.
New York Times Book Review Editorsâ Choice ⢠Belletrist Book Club Pick
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Oprah Daily, The New Yorker, Time, The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, Town & Country, New York Post, Harperâs Bazaar, Elle, Parade, Kirkus Reviews
âThe best book about America Iâve read lately . . . The novel concerns being Jewish, being an immigrant, class, family, wealth, and how that wealth can disfigure people. Itâs all terribly funny, which always helps.ââDavid Sedaris for Time, â25 Books That Capture This American Momentâ
âJoins the pantheon of great American novels.ââLos Angeles Times
âExuberant and absorbing . . . a big old-fashioned social novel.ââThe Atlantic
In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, beaten, and ransomed. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, and the family moves on, comforted in the realization that if their money was what endangered them, it is also what assured their safety.
But forty years later, itâs clear that nobody ever got over anything, after all. Carl has secretly sought closure for decades, while his wife, Ruth, has spent her potential protecting her husbandâs emotional health. Their three grown children arenât doing much better: Nathanâs chronic anxiety keeps him from advancing at his law firm; Beamer, a Hollywood screenwriter, will consume anythingâdrugs, food, womenâto numb his terror; and Jenny is so bent on proving that sheâs not a product of her familyâs pathology that she has come to define it. When they learn that the family fortune has dwindled to just about nothing, they must face questions about the part wealth has played in their livesâ successes and failures and confront the trauma that has stunted each of them.
With depth and surprising hilarity, Long Island Compromise winds through one familyâs history, all the way to the outrageous present, confronting the mainstays of American Jewish life: tradition, the pursuit of success, the terror of history, old wivesâ tales, evil eyes, achievement, boredom, pyramid schemes, right-wing capitalists, beta blockers, and the mostly unspoken love and shared experience that unite a family forever.
New York Times Book Review Editorsâ Choice ⢠Belletrist Book Club Pick
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠An exhilarating novel about one American family and the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Oprah Daily, The New Yorker, Time, The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, Town & Country, New York Post, Harperâs Bazaar, Elle, Parade, Kirkus Reviews
âThe best book about America Iâve read lately . . . The novel concerns being Jewish, being an immigrant, class, family, wealth, and how that wealth can disfigure people. Itâs all terribly funny, which always helps.ââDavid Sedaris for Time, â25 Books That Capture This American Momentâ
âJoins the pantheon of great American novels.ââLos Angeles Times
âExuberant and absorbing . . . a big old-fashioned social novel.ââThe Atlantic
In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, beaten, and ransomed. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, and the family moves on, comforted in the realization that if their money was what endangered them, it is also what assured their safety.
But forty years later, itâs clear that nobody ever got over anything, after all. Carl has secretly sought closure for decades, while his wife, Ruth, has spent her potential protecting her husbandâs emotional health. Their three grown children arenât doing much better: Nathanâs chronic anxiety keeps him from advancing at his law firm; Beamer, a Hollywood screenwriter, will consume anythingâdrugs, food, womenâto numb his terror; and Jenny is so bent on proving that sheâs not a product of her familyâs pathology that she has come to define it. When they learn that the family fortune has dwindled to just about nothing, they must face questions about the part wealth has played in their livesâ successes and failures and confront the trauma that has stunted each of them.
With depth and surprising hilarity, Long Island Compromise winds through one familyâs history, all the way to the outrageous present, confronting the mainstays of American Jewish life: tradition, the pursuit of success, the terror of history, old wivesâ tales, evil eyes, achievement, boredom, pyramid schemes, right-wing capitalists, beta blockers, and the mostly unspoken love and shared experience that unite a family forever.
New York Times Book Review Editorsâ Choice ⢠Belletrist Book Club Pick
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Oprah Daily, The New Yorker, Time, The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, Town & Country, New York Post, Harperâs Bazaar, Elle, Parade, Kirkus Reviews
âThe best book about America Iâve read lately . . . The novel concerns being Jewish, being an immigrant, class, family, wealth, and how that wealth can disfigure people. Itâs all terribly funny, which always helps.ââDavid Sedaris for Time, â25 Books That Capture This American Momentâ
âJoins the pantheon of great American novels.ââLos Angeles Times
âExuberant and absorbing . . . a big old-fashioned social novel.ââThe Atlantic
In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, beaten, and ransomed. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, and the family moves on, comforted in the realization that if their money was what endangered them, it is also what assured their safety.
But forty years later, itâs clear that nobody ever got over anything, after all. Carl has secretly sought closure for decades, while his wife, Ruth, has spent her potential protecting her husbandâs emotional health. Their three grown children arenât doing much better: Nathanâs chronic anxiety keeps him from advancing at his law firm; Beamer, a Hollywood screenwriter, will consume anythingâdrugs, food, womenâto numb his terror; and Jenny is so bent on proving that sheâs not a product of her familyâs pathology that she has come to define it. When they learn that the family fortune has dwindled to just about nothing, they must face questions about the part wealth has played in their livesâ successes and failures and confront the trauma that has stunted each of them.
With depth and surprising hilarity, Long Island Compromise winds through one familyâs history, all the way to the outrageous present, confronting the mainstays of American Jewish life: tradition, the pursuit of success, the terror of history, old wivesâ tales, evil eyes, achievement, boredom, pyramid schemes, right-wing capitalists, beta blockers, and the mostly unspoken love and shared experience that unite a family forever.
New York Times Book Review Editorsâ Choice ⢠Belletrist Book Club Pick
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠An exhilarating novel about one American family and the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Oprah Daily, The New Yorker, Time, The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, Town & Country, New York Post, Harperâs Bazaar, Elle, Parade, Kirkus Reviews
âThe best book about America Iâve read lately . . . The novel concerns being Jewish, being an immigrant, class, family, wealth, and how that wealth can disfigure people. Itâs all terribly funny, which always helps.ââDavid Sedaris for Time, â25 Books That Capture This American Momentâ
âJoins the pantheon of great American novels.ââLos Angeles Times
âExuberant and absorbing . . . a big old-fashioned social novel.ââThe Atlantic
In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, beaten, and ransomed. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, and the family moves on, comforted in the realization that if their money was what endangered them, it is also what assured their safety.
But forty years later, itâs clear that nobody ever got over anything, after all. Carl has secretly sought closure for decades, while his wife, Ruth, has spent her potential protecting her husbandâs emotional health. Their three grown children arenât doing much better: Nathanâs chronic anxiety keeps him from advancing at his law firm; Beamer, a Hollywood screenwriter, will consume anythingâdrugs, food, womenâto numb his terror; and Jenny is so bent on proving that sheâs not a product of her familyâs pathology that she has come to define it. When they learn that the family fortune has dwindled to just about nothing, they must face questions about the part wealth has played in their livesâ successes and failures and confront the trauma that has stunted each of them.
With depth and surprising hilarity, Long Island Compromise winds through one familyâs history, all the way to the outrageous present, confronting the mainstays of American Jewish life: tradition, the pursuit of success, the terror of history, old wivesâ tales, evil eyes, achievement, boredom, pyramid schemes, right-wing capitalists, beta blockers, and the mostly unspoken love and shared experience that unite a family forever.
New York Times Book Review Editorsâ Choice ⢠Belletrist Book Club Pick
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Oprah Daily, The New Yorker, Time, The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, Town & Country, New York Post, Harperâs Bazaar, Elle, Parade, Kirkus Reviews
âThe best book about America Iâve read lately . . . The novel concerns being Jewish, being an immigrant, class, family, wealth, and how that wealth can disfigure people. Itâs all terribly funny, which always helps.ââDavid Sedaris for Time, â25 Books That Capture This American Momentâ
âJoins the pantheon of great American novels.ââLos Angeles Times
âExuberant and absorbing . . . a big old-fashioned social novel.ââThe Atlantic
In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, beaten, and ransomed. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, and the family moves on, comforted in the realization that if their money was what endangered them, it is also what assured their safety.
But forty years later, itâs clear that nobody ever got over anything, after all. Carl has secretly sought closure for decades, while his wife, Ruth, has spent her potential protecting her husbandâs emotional health. Their three grown children arenât doing much better: Nathanâs chronic anxiety keeps him from advancing at his law firm; Beamer, a Hollywood screenwriter, will consume anythingâdrugs, food, womenâto numb his terror; and Jenny is so bent on proving that sheâs not a product of her familyâs pathology that she has come to define it. When they learn that the family fortune has dwindled to just about nothing, they must face questions about the part wealth has played in their livesâ successes and failures and confront the trauma that has stunted each of them.
With depth and surprising hilarity, Long Island Compromise winds through one familyâs history, all the way to the outrageous present, confronting the mainstays of American Jewish life: tradition, the pursuit of success, the terror of history, old wivesâ tales, evil eyes, achievement, boredom, pyramid schemes, right-wing capitalists, beta blockers, and the mostly unspoken love and shared experience that unite a family forever.
New York Times Book Review Editorsâ Choice ⢠Belletrist Book Club Pick
