Long Island Compromise

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 0593133498 ISBN13: 9780593133491 Release Date: July 2024 Publisher: Random House Length: 464 Pages Weight: 1.49 lbs. Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.2" x 9.3" An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, and the wild legacy of trauma and inheritance, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble"A big, juicy, wickedly funny social satire . . . probably the funniest book ever about generational family trauma."--Oprah Daily "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 driveway, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, only slightly the worse, and the family moves on with their lives, resuming their prized places in the saga of the American dream, comforted in the realization that though their money may have been wh