Taffy Brodesser-Akner is an exceptionally funny, fun, brilliant writer and it was clear this story meant a lot to her. It's also very much worth reading her NY Times Magazine story on the book.
'Everything I was dreaming it would be - shocking, tender, profound and delicious' EMILY MAITLIS
'Both enjoyable and funny while also substantive and profound' CATHY RENTZENBRINK
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble comes Long Island Compromise, 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.
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…
A friend was raving about this book and I initially resisted reading it because I wasn't drawn to the subject, but immediately was drawn in, learned a lot, changed my mind about some things.
'A very special book about a family with a secret. It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me think.' Liane Moriarty, No. 1 bestselling author of THE HUSBAND'S SECRET
Laurie Frankel's THIS IS HOW IT ALWAYS IS the 'fascinating story of a thoroughly modern family and the giant, multifaceted love that binds them... Sparkles with wit and wisdom' (Maria Semple). Perfect for readers of WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES and THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY.
This is how a family keeps a secret...and how that secret ends up keeping them.
I have been on a Percival Everett tear ever since I saw "American Fiction." He is deservedly a cult leader. "Erasure," on which the movie is based, is also really worth reading.
'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' - Roddy Doyle, Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha
James by Percival Everett is a profound and ferociously funny meditation on identity, belonging and the sacrifices we make to protect the ones we love, which reimagines The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. From the author of The Trees, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Erasure, adapted into the Oscar-winning film American Fiction.
The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new…
"Buzz" -- the memoir of a mother and son who were both diagnosed with ADHD and were making home a battleground until they figured it out -- is my favorite of the 12 non-fiction books I've authored and co-authored. So much so that I updated and republished it last year. I treasure the letters and emails I get from parents who have felt accompanied on this crazy journey by the book.
