{"product_id":"long-island-compromise","title":"Taffy Brodesser-Akner: Long Island Compromise [2024] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Everything I was dreaming it would be - shocking, tender, profound and delicious' EMILY MAITLIS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Both enjoyable and funny while also substantive and profound' CATHY RENTZENBRINK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eFleishman Is in Trouble\u003c\/i\u003e comes \u003ci\u003eLong Island Compromise\u003c\/i\u003e, a darkly exhilarating 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLong Island Compromise\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003eFLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is \u003ci\u003ethe \u003c\/i\u003enovel of the summer . . . There is no one that this book isn't for. I can't believe it's a first novel. Pure brilliance' INDIA KNIGHT, \u003ci\u003eTHE SUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Could be one of the books of my entire lifetime. I've never felt so seen' GRACE DENT, \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eSharp and wicked, insightful and funny, and then suddenly so touching' DAVID NICHOLLS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This book is a work of utter perfection' ELIZABETH GILBERT\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taffy Brodesser-Akner","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":53891393683795,"sku":"XG81472273048","price":3.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":50721956495699,"sku":"XV81472273048","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Like New","offer_id":50903613538643,"sku":"XE81472273048","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":48881122017619,"sku":"9781472273048","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/taffy-brodesser-akner-taffy-brodesser-akner-long-island-compromise-2024-paperback-1154326708.jpg?v=1780232548","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/long-island-compromise","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}