Fleishman Is in Trouble

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble, longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020<BR><BR>'The status book you'll want to be seen with' Stylist<BR><BR>In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway in the nicest part of the nicest part of Long Island. He is brutalised, held for ransom and then returned to his family. Miraculously, Carl, his wife and his three kids are left to move on with their lives, and resume their prized places in the ongoing saga of the American dream.<BR><BR>But nearly forty years later, when Carl's mother dies, the trauma that has been bubbling beneath the Fletchers' lives all this time surfaces at last. It becomes apparent that Carl has been quietly pursuing closure to the kidnapping for all these years, and his wife and children must face that the money that they believed bought them safety was actually never capable of doing any such thing. <BR><BR>Long Island Compromise spans generations, winding through decades of history all the way through to the wild present, dealing along the way with all the mainstays of American Jewish life and the timeless questions about wealth, trauma, and the American soul. <BR><BR>'This book is DYNAMITE' Caitlin Moran<BR>'Very, very good' Elizabeth Day<BR>'Sprawling yet nimble' The New York Times <BR>'A lip-smacking tale' Guardian<BR>'Substantive and profound' Cathy Rentzenbrink<BR>'[A] scabrous satire' New Yorker

'Sharp and wicked, insightful and funny, and then suddenly so touching' DAVID NICHOLLS<BR><BR>'It is a Great Novel . . . It has depth, wit, nuance and life. Heartbreaking and funny' NIGELLA LAWSON<BR><BR>'This is the novel of the summer . . . There is no one that this book isn't for. I can't believe it's a first novel. Pure brilliance' INDIA KNIGHT, THE SUNDAY TIMES<BR><BR>'Could be one of the books of my entire lifetime. I've never felt so seen' GRACE DENT, GUARDIAN<BR><BR>'This book is a work of utter perfection' ELIZABETH GILBERT<BR><BR>THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, JUNE 2019<BR><BR>Finally free from his nightmare marriage, Toby Fleishman is ready for a life of online dating and weekend-only parental duties. But as he optimistically looks to a future that is wildly different from the one he imagined, his life turns upside-down as his ex-wife, Rachel, suddenly disappears.<BR><BR>While Toby tries to find out what happened - juggling work, kids and his new, app-assisted sexual popularity - his tidy narrative of a spurned husband is his sole consolation. But if he ever wants to really understand where Rachel went and what really happened to his marriage, he is going to have to consider that he might not have seen it all that clearly in the first place . . .<BR><BR>WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE:<BR><BR>'So sharp' GUARDIAN<BR><BR>'The most astonishingly brilliant Trojan horse of a novel' DOLLY ALDERTON<BR><BR>'Wonderful. Utterly blistering . . . A wildly entertaining, moving story' MARIAN KEYES<BR><BR>'Brimming with wisdom and utterly of this moment . . . Taffy Brodesser-Akner's debut is that rare and delicious treat: a page turner with heft' MARIA SEMPLE <BR><BR>LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020<BR>LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD<BR>LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL<BR>SHORTLISTED FOR THE FICTION: DÉBUT BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS<BR>RUNNER-UP FOR THE MCKITTERICK PRIZE 2020<BR>FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE/JOHN LEONARD AWARD FOR BEST FIRST BOOK

1980 im wohlhabenden Long Island: Carl Fletcher wird vor seinem Haus gekidnappt. Kurz darauf, nach Zahlung eines üppigen Lösegelds, wird er freigelassen, und die Familie versucht, den Vorfall hinter sich zu lassen. Doch als sie vierzig Jahre später bei einer Feier wieder zusammentrifft, wird klar, dass die lange zurückliegende Entführung unerwartete Spuren hinterlassen hat - und zwar nicht nur bei Carl, sondern bei der ganzen Familie. Und diese Auswirkungen gestalten sich mal verstörend und mal überaus amüsant!Eine große jüdisch-amerikanische Familiengeschichte, Jahrzehnte umspannend, die sich bereits jetzt wie ein Klassiker liest: sprachlich virtuos, fein beobachtet und sehr, sehr lustig.

'Is this book as good [as Fleishman]? It's better' THE NEW YORK TIMES<BR>'The best book I've read this year' HARLAN COBEN<BR>'Very, very good' ELIZABETH DAY<BR>'The book of the summer, nay, the year' DAVID SEDARIS<BR>'This book is DYNAMITE. Inhaled it in two sittings' CAITLIN MORAN<BR>'Shocking, tender, profound and delicious' EMILY MAITLIS<BR>'Lavishly comic' THE TIMES<BR>'A lip-smacking tale' GUARDIAN<BR>'Elegant and devastating' FINANCIAL TIMES<BR><BR>From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble comes a darkly exhilarating novel about an American family and its inheritance - the safety and wealth that they fought for, and the precarity of their survival that is their legacy.<BR><BR> In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway in the nicest part of the nicest part of Long Island. He is brutalised, held for ransom and then returned to his family. Miraculously, Carl, his wife and his three kids are left to move on with their lives, and resume their prized places in the ongoing saga of the American dream.<BR><BR> But nearly forty years later, when Carl's mother dies, the trauma that has been bubbling beneath the Fletchers' lives all this time surfaces at last. It becomes apparent that Carl has been quietly pursuing closure to the kidnapping for all these years, and his wife and children must face that the money that they believed bought them safety was actually never capable of doing any such thing. <BR><BR> Long Island Compromise spans generations, winding through decades of history all the way through to the wild present, dealing along the way with all the mainstays of American Jewish life and the timeless questions about wealth, trauma, and the American soul.<BR><BR>MORE PRAISE FOR LONG ISLAND COMPROMISE:<BR><BR>'The status book you'll want to be seen with' STYLIST<BR>'[A] scabrous satire' THE NEW YORKER<BR>'More than a delight' NEW STATESMAN<BR>'This author's talents are boundless' LA TIMES<BR>'Substantive and profound' CATHY RENTZENBRINK<BR>'Greatness so often comes at the expense of what is enjoyable. Long Island Compromise is both, and then some' IPAPER<BR>'Exuberant and absorbing' ATLANTIC<BR><BR>PRAISE FOR FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE:<BR><BR>'There is no one that this book isn't for . . . Pure brilliance' INDIA KNIGHT, THE SUNDAY TIMES<BR>'Could be one of the books of my entire lifetime. I've never felt so seen' GRACE DENT, GUARDIAN<BR>'Sharp and wicked, insightful and funny, and then suddenly so touching' DAVID NICHOLLS<BR>'A work of utter perfection' ELIZABETH GILBERT<BR><BR>[FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE was a Sunday Times bestseller (UK) in August 2019 and a New York Times bestseller (USA) in June 2019]

"Ein herrlich saftiges Familien-Epos, sehr jüdisch-amerikanisch und dementsprechend überbordend an Details, Fabulierlust und exzentrischen Figuren. Taffy Brodesser-Akner segelt mit lakonischer Distanz zu ihnen, aber nie ohne Liebe und Mitgefühl, mitten hinein ins Auge des Sturms." SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG1980 im wohlhabenden Long Island: Carl Fletcher wird vor seinem Haus gekidnappt. Kurz darauf, nach Zahlung eines üppigen Lösegelds, wird er freigelassen, und die Familie versucht, den Vorfall hinter sich zu lassen. Doch als sie vierzig Jahre später bei einer Feier wieder zusammentrifft, wird klar, dass die lange zurückliegende Entführung unerwartete Spuren hinterlassen hat - und zwar nicht nur bei Carl, sondern bei der ganzen Familie. Und diese Auswirkungen gestalten sich mal verstörend und mal überaus amüsant!Eine große jüdisch-amerikanische Familiengeschichte, Jahrzehnte umspannend, die sich bereits jetzt wie ein Klassiker liest: sprachlich virtuos, fein beobachtet und sehr, sehr lustig.'Dieses Buch steht Klassikern wie DIE KORREKTUREN und MIDDLESEX in nichts nach.' LOS ANGELES TIMES

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 Trouble<BR><BR>A 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<BR><BR>“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 Time, “25 Books That Capture This American Moment” <BR><BR>“Joins the pantheon of great American novels.”—Los Angeles Times<BR>“Exuberant and absorbing . . . a big old-fashioned social novel.”—The Atlantic<BR><BR>In 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. <BR><BR>But 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. <BR><BR>With depth and surprising hilarity, Long Island Compromise 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.<BR><BR>New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • Belletrist Book Club Pick