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1 day ago · “Long Island Compromise” is a heavily populated satire with more cul-de-sacs than the whole of Nassau County; ... 100 Best Books of the 21st Century: As voted on by 503 novelists, ...
5 days ago · This is a rich, stylish, moving and funny novel that considers, through the story of a single family, the experience of Jewish trauma and what it meant for refugees from the inexorable ...
16 hours ago · I'm Tonya Mosley. "Long Island Compromise" is a new novel by Taffy Brodesser-Akner, and it opens with a kidnapping. The year is 1980, and Carl Fletcher, a wealthy businessman, is taken for ransom from the driveway of his palatial home on Long Island. After his family pays the ransom, Carl returns to his wife and kids, determined to continue ...
3 days ago · “Long Island Compromise” is an exploration of intergenerational trauma and an unabashed critique of income inequality — Thorstein Veblen’s “The Theory of the Leisure Class” is even ...
5 days ago · The book features the Fletchers, a Jewish-American family whose progenitor fled Poland during the Holocaust, and who have since become devastatingly rich off a code-violating polystyrene factory. We meet the family patriarch, Carl, in 1980, just as he is being kidnapped from his Long Island driveway.
3 days ago · Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s novel “Long Island Compromise” begins on a morning in 1980, when a factory-owner named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from the driveway outside his house in the...
6 days ago · A Marlton teen has completed his Eagle Scout project in service to the community. Keith Paes organized a book drive. In just 15 days, he collected more than 3,000 books from all over Burlington ...
