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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

In 1982, 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 sons 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.

But twenty-five years later, when Carls mother dies and the family comes home to mourn her, the unprocessed drama finally rises to the surface for the entire family: Carl, the prickly, still-terrified father, who has been secretly seeking closure to the matter of his kidnapping for years; his wife, Ruth, who has spent her potential protecting her husbands emotional health; and their three grown children: Nathan, who is trying to stay on the promotion track at his law firm; Beamer, a Hollywood producer, who will consume anything--substance, foodstuff, women--in order to numb his own perpetual terror; and Jenny, the cool observer who spends his life so bent on proving that he is not a product of the familys pathology that she comes to define it.

Long Island Compromise spans the entirety of one familys history, winding through decades and generations all the way through the wild present, and deals with all the mainstays of American Jewish life: tradition, the pursuit of success, the fear of history, old wives tales, evil eyes, orgies, dybbuks, hippies, right-wing capitalists, and the mostly unspoken love and shared experience that unites a family forever.

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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

New York Times Book Review Editors Choice New York Magazines Beach Read Book Club Pick Belletrist Book Club Pick

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Time, The Washington Post, NPR, Town & Country, Kirkus Reviews

Joins the pantheon of great American novels.Los Angeles Times
Exuberant and absorbing . . . a big old-fashioned social novel.The Atlantic

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 what endangered them, it is also what assured them their safety.

But now, nearly forty years later, its clear that perhaps nobody ever got over anything, after all. Carl has spent the ensuing years secretly seeking closure to the matter of his kidnapping, while his wife, Ruth, has spent her potential protecting her husbands emotional health. Their three grown children arent doing much better: Nathans chronic fear wont allow him to advance at his law firm; Beamer, a Hollywood screenwriter, will consume anythingsubstance, foodstuff, womenin order to numb his own perpetual terror; and Jenny has spent her life so bent on proving that shes not a product of her familys pathology that she has come to define it. As they hover at the delicate precipice of a different kind of survival, they learn that the family fortune has dwindled to just about nothing, and they must face desperate questions about how much their wealth has played a part in both their lives successes and failures.

Long Island Compromise spans the entirety of one familys history, winding through decades and generations, all the way to the outrageous present, and confronting the mainstays of American Jewish life: tradition, the pursuit of success, the terror of history, fear of the future, old wives tales, evil eyes, ambition, achievement, boredom, dybbuks, inheritance, pyramid schemes, right-wing capitalists, beta-blockers, psychics, and the mostly unspoken love and shared experience that unite a family forever.

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New York Times Book Review Editors Choice New York Magazines Beach Read Book Club Pick Belletrist Book Club Pick

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, Harpers Bazaar, Elle, Parade, Kirkus Reviews

Joins the pantheon of great American novels.Los Angeles Times
Exuberant and absorbing . . . a big old-fashioned social novel.The Atlantic

Were we gangsters? No. But did we know how to start a fire?

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Long Island Compromise

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