Long Island Compromise A Novel

Taffy Brodesser-Akner

eBook - 2024

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 TroubleNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • New York Magazine’s Beach Read Book Club Pick • Belletrist Book Club PickA 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, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Parade, Kirkus Reviews“Joins the pantheon of great American novels.”—Los Angeles Times“Exuberant and absorbing . . . a big old-fashioned social novel.”—The Atlantic“Were we gangsters? No. But did we know how to start a fire?�...��In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his... more