Triburbia

Karl Taro Greenfeld

eBook - 2012

"Pitch-perfect, dry, and smart, this is a vivid portrait of New York, our lives, our loves, and our hearts." — Susan Orlean, author of Rin Tin Tin and The Orchid Thief"I loved Triburbia, loved dropping in on these wonderful characters with their outsized appetites and ambitions, the lithe and lively prose, the way the book swirls in and out of these lives and maps perfectly a place and a moment in time. Most of all, though, I loved Karl Taro Greenfeld's deft satirical touch, the searing empathy with which he offers up his privileged, damaged people to the world." — Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins Karl Taro Greenfeld, author of the acclaimed memoir Boy Alone, delivers a remarkable first novel about a group... of families in a fashionable Manhattan neighborhood wrestling with the dark realities of their lives.Thrown together by circumstance, six fathers—a sound engineer, a sculptor, a film producer, a chef, a... more