{"product_id":"long-island-compromise-paperback-1","title":"Long Island Compromise - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTaffy Brodesser-Akner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - An exhilarating novel about one American family and the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, from the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eFleishman Is in Trouble\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review, Oprah Daily, The New Yorker, Time, The Washington Post, \u003c\/i\u003eNPR, \u003ci\u003eVogue, Town \u0026amp; Country, New York Post, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Parade, Kirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The best book about America I've read lately . . . The novel concerns being Jewish, being an immigrant, class, family, wealth, and how that wealth can disfigure people. It's all terribly funny, which always helps.\"--David Sedaris for \u003ci\u003eTime, \u003c\/i\u003e\"25 Books That Capture This American Moment\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Joins the pantheon of great American novels.\"--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Exuberant and absorbing . . . a big old-fashioned social novel.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, beaten, and ransomed. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, and the family moves on, comforted in the realization that if their money was what endangered them, it is also what assured their safety. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut forty years later, it's clear that nobody ever got over anything, after all. Carl has secretly sought closure for decades, while his wife, Ruth, has spent her potential protecting her husband's emotional health. Their three grown children aren't doing much better: Nathan's chronic anxiety keeps him from advancing at his law firm; Beamer, a Hollywood screenwriter, will consume anything--drugs, food, women--to numb his terror; and Jenny is so bent on proving that she's not a product of her family's pathology that she has come to define it. When they learn that the family fortune has dwindled to just about nothing, they must face questions about the part wealth has played in their lives' successes and failures and confront the trauma that has stunted each of them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith depth and surprising hilarity, \u003ci\u003eLong Island Compromise\u003c\/i\u003e winds through one family's history, all the way to the outrageous present, confronting the mainstays of American Jewish life: tradition, the pursuit of success, the terror of history, old wives' tales, evil eyes, achievement, boredom, pyramid schemes, right-wing capitalists, beta blockers, and the mostly unspoken love and shared experience that unite a family forever. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eEditors' Choice - Belletrist Book Club Pick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTaffy Brodesser-Akner \u003c\/b\u003eis a staff writer for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eFleishman Is in Trouble, \u003c\/i\u003e which has been translated into more than a dozen languages. She is also the creator and executive producer of its Emmy-nominated limited series adaptation for FX. \u003ci\u003eLong Island Compromise\u003c\/i\u003e is her second novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 464\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.18 x 7.95 x 5.12 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 20, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53577619767603,"sku":"9780593133514","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/long-island-compromise-paperback-1","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}