Long Island compromise : a novel / Taffy Brodesser-Akner.
"In 1983, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway in the nicest part of Long Island, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, only slightly the worse for wear, and the family begins the hard work of trying to move on with their lives and resume their prized places in the saga of the American dream, coming to understand that though their money may have been what put them in danger, it is also what guaranteed them their safety in the end. But forty years later, when Carl's mother dies and the family comes home to mourn her, it becomes clear that nobody ever really got over anything. Carl's wife, Ruth, has spent her potential protecting her husband's emotional health. Their three grown children are each a mess: Nathan cannot seem to advance at his law firm and may have made a terrible investment with his trust fund; Beamer, a Hollywood screenwriter, will consume anything-substance, foodstuff, women-in order to numb his own perpetual terror; and Jenny has spent her life so bent on proving that she is not a product of the family's pathology that she comes to define it. Then there's Carl himself, the prickly, still-terrified father, who has been secretly seeking closure to the matter of his kidnapping for years, and the unthinkable act he commits that will alter the family's path forever."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593133491
- ISBN: 0593133498
- Physical Description: 444 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2024]
- Copyright: ©2024
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Subject: | Rich people > Fiction. Kidnapping > Fiction. Extortion > Fiction. Jewish families > Fiction. Businessmen > Fiction. Family secrets > Fiction. Long Island (N.Y.) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. Domestic fiction. |
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- 18 of 43 copies available at NC Cardinal.
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George H. & Laura E. Brown Library | F Bro (Text) | 30308101356864 | Adult New Fiction | Available | - |
Albert Carlton - Cashiers Community Library | F BRODESSER-AKNER (Text) | 39493110118769 | Adult New Fiction | Available | - |
Bethlehem Branch | F Brodesser-Akner (Text) | 34269001432880 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 11/12/2024 |
Boone Trail Branch | F Bro (Text) | 33630005403188 | Adult Fiction | In process | - |
Cliffdale Library | F BRODESSER-AKNER (Text) | 31781069814190 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Columbus Library | F BRO (Text) | 31250200090770 | Adult New Fiction | Available | - |
East Asheville Library | F BRO (Text) | 0020660339365 | Adult New Fiction | Checked out | 10/22/2024 |
East Regional Library | F BRODESSER-AKNER (Text) | 31781069814208 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Eden Library | ROC1730271 (Text) | ROC1730269 | Adult New Fiction | In process | - |
Enka-Candler Library | F BRO (Text) | 0020660354760 | Adult New Fiction | Available | - |
Etowah Branch | BRO (Text) | 33258010423841 | Adult New Fiction | On holds shelf | - |
Fairview Library | F BRO (Text) | 0020660382076 | Adult New Fiction | Checked out | 10/30/2024 |
Fletcher Branch | BRO (Text) | 33258010411457 | Adult New Fiction | On holds shelf | - |
Forsyth Central | FIC Brodesser-Akner, Taffy (Text) | 0112523847138 | Adult New Fiction | Checked out | 10/30/2024 |
Goldsboro Library | GOLDAF (Text) | WAYNE22235031269105 | Adult New Fiction | On order | - |
Halifax Main Library | F BRODESSER-AKNER LHC (Text) | 01011700100853 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Haywood County Main Library | F Brodesser-Akner (Text) | 33115007696361 | Adult New Fiction | Checked out | 11/01/2024 |
Henderson Main Branch | BRO (Text) | 33258010411466 | Adult New Fiction | Checked out | 10/24/2024 |
Jackson County Public Library | F BRODESSER-AKNER (Text) | 39493109515876 | Adult New Fiction | Available | - |
Leicester Library | F BRO (Text) | 0020660354778 | Adult New Fiction | On holds shelf | - |
Lewisville Branch | FIC Brodesser-Akner, Taffy (Text) | 0112523847245 | Adult New Fiction | Checked out | 10/28/2024 |
Madison-Mayodan Public Library | ROC1730271 (Text) | ROC1730271 | Adult New Fiction | In process | - |
Marianna Black Library | F BRODESSER-AKNER (Text) | 39493109175754 | Adult New Fiction | Checked out | 10/30/2024 |
Mars Hill Library | FIC BRO (Text) | 30229101349206 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Mauney Memorial Library | F BRO (Text) | 26280862103604 | Adult New Fiction | Available | - |
Mountains Branch Library | F Bro (Text)
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Murphy Public Library | F BRO (Text) | 80605003725628 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 10/22/2024 |
North Asheville Library | F BRO (Text) | 0020660339373 | Adult New Fiction | On holds shelf | - |
North Davidson Public Library | F BRO (Text) | 25908008476462 | Adult New Fiction | Available | - |
North Regional Library | F BRODESSER-AKNER (Text) | 31781069814216 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Northern Wayne Library | F BRO (Text) | 900000001067058 | Adult New Fiction | Available | - |
Ocracoke Community Library | MCN FIC (Text) | 38344101734125 | Mcnaughton Fiction | Available | - |
Pack Memorial Library | F BRO (Text) | 0020660339381 | Adult New Fiction | Checked out | 10/24/2024 |
Public Library of Johnston County and Smithfield | FIC Brodesser-Akner (Text) | 38955500143806 | Adult New Fiction | Available | - |
Reynolda Manor Branch | FIC Brodesser-Akner, Taffy (Text) | 0112523847254 | Adult New Fiction | Checked out | 10/31/2024 |
Statesville Main Library | F BRODESSER-AKNER (Text) | 33114018860932 | Adult New Fiction | Available | - |
Statesville Main Library | F BRODESSER-AKNER (Text) | 33114018860940 | Adult New Fiction | Checked out | 10/31/2024 |
Steele Memorial Library | F BRO (Text) | 900000001064212 | Adult New Fiction | Available | - |
Transylvania County Library | FIC BRO (Text) | 38079300244266 | Adult New Fiction | Checked out | 11/05/2024 |
Valdese Public Library | F BRO (Text) | 33557004679858 | Adult New Fiction | Checked out | 10/28/2024 |
Weaverville Library | F BRO (Text) | 0020660346766 | Adult New Fiction | Checked out | 10/29/2024 |
West Asheville Library | F BRO (Text) | 0020660339399 | Adult New Fiction | Checked out | 11/07/2024 |
Youngsville Branch | F/Brodesser-Akner (Text) | 72350000122680 | Adult New Fiction | Checked out | 11/08/2024 |