TAFFY BRODESSER AKNER

Is this book as good [as Fleishman]? It's better' THE NEW YORK TIMES'The best book I've read this year' HARLAN COBEN'Very, very good' ELIZABETH DAY'The book of the summer, nay, the year' DAVID SEDARIS'This book is DYNAMITE. Inhaled it in two sittings' CAITLIN MORAN'Shocking, tender, profound and delicious' EMILY MAITLIS'Lavishly comic' THE TIMES'A lip-smacking tale' GUARDIAN'Elegant and devastating' FINANCIAL TIMESFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble comes 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.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.

From the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble comes Long Island Compromise, 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.

En 1980, un adinerado hombre de negocios llamado Carl Fletcher es secuestrado, tratado con brutalidad y retenido para pedir un rescate. Menos de una semana después, lo liberan y regresa con su mujer

From the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble comes Long Island Compromise, 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.In 1982, wealthy businessman 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. Carl, his wife and his three kids all try 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. Finally, Carl allows himself to acknowledge what happened to him all those years ago, and face the question that's been idling in his mind for a quarter of a century: where did the ransom go? And if he were ever to find the money, would it finally give him and his family the closure they've been yearning for?

Finally free from his nightmare marriage, Toby Fleishman is ready for a life of online dating and weekend-only parental duties. But as he optimistically looks to a future that is wildly different from the one he imagined, his life turns upside-down as his ex-wife, Rachel, suddenly disappears.While Toby tries to find out what happened - juggling work, kids and his new, app-assisted sexual popularity - his tidy narrative of a spurned husband is his sole consolation. But if he ever wants to really understand where Rachel went and what really happened to his marriage, he is going to have to consider that he might not have seen it all that clearly in the first place . . .

Toby Fleishman creyo saber que podia esperar cuando el y su mujer, con quien ha estado casado durante casi quince anos, se separan: fines de semana y vacaciones alternadas con los ninos, alguna amargura residual, algun momento de tension esporadico para negociar la crianza compartida de sus hijos. Pero no podia predecir que un dia, en el medio de su emancipacion sexual recien adquirida, Rachel dejaria a sus dos hijos en su casa y no volveria mas. Toby se habia esforzado tanto por encontrar un equilibrio en su vida de soltero. Los vientos de su optimismo, largamente inactivos, recien se habian puesto en marcha. Y ahora esto. Mientras Toby intenta averiguar donde fue Rachel, a la vez que hace malabarismos con sus pacientes del hospital, sus tareas parentales que no se acaban nunca y su recientemente adquirida popularidad sexual en las apps, termina siendo la prolija narrativa del marido rechazado y la mujer excesivamente ambiciosa. Pero si Toby quiere comprender de veras lo que le sucedio a Rachel y a su matrimonio, tendra que aceptar que quiza no ha sido totalmente objetivo en su analisis de los hechos. Un debut mordaz y sin tapujos, Fleishman esta en apuros es una exploracion perspicaz, inquietante y a menudo hilarante de una cultura que intenta gestionar las profundas lineas divisorias de una institucion que ha demostrado ser digna de profundos recelos y profundas esperanzas.