The Rich People Have Gone Away A Novel

Regina Porter

eBook - 2024

AN AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK • A diverse group of New Yorkers are brought together by the search for a missing woman—in this electric novel of secrets, connection, and community.“Cinematic, preternaturally humane, and absolutely unputdownable—I just loved it.”—Claire Lombardo, People “What Your Favorite Authors are Reading This Summer”“Riveting.”—Charmaine Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of Black CakeA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Time, Kirkus ReviewsBrooklyn, 2020. Theo Harper and his pregnant wife, Darla, head upstate to their summer cottage to wait out the lockdown. Not everyone in their upscale Park Slope building has this privilege: not Xavier, the teenager in the Cardi B... T-shirt, nor Darla’s best friend, Ruby, and her partner, Katsumi, who stay behind to save their... more