'Is this book as good [as Fleishman ]? It's better' THE NEW YORK TIMES 'The best book I've
read this year' HARLAN COBEN 'Very very good' ELIZABETH DAY 'The book of the summer nay
the year' DAVID SEDARIS 'This book is DYNAMITE. Inhaled it in two sittings' CAITLIN MORAN
'Shocking tender profound and delicious' EMILY MAITLIS 'Lavishly comic' THE TIMES 'A
lip-smacking tale' GUARDIAN 'Elegant and devastating' FINANCIAL TIMES 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. In 1980 a wealthy businessman named Carl
Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway brutalised and held for ransom. He is returned to his
wife kids and exquisite Long Island home less than a week later and the family moves on with
their gilded lives. But now nearly forty years later it seems that nobody ever got over
anything after all. With a death in the family the hidden struggles of the Fletchers come
bubbling to the surface. Carl has spent years secretly seeking closure to the mystery of his
kidnapping while his wife Ruth has given up everything to protect her husband's fragile
emotional health and keep the business thriving. Their three grown children aren't doing much
better: Nathan's chronic existential fear won't allow him to advance at his law fi rm Beamer
a failing Hollywood screenwriter will consume anything - substances food women - at any cost
and Jenny with her brilliant mind is desperate to prove she is not anything like her family
by working in trade unions (whilst still receiving quarterly payouts from the family business).
Money was what put the Fletchers in danger but it has also protected them - until now...
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. MORE PRAISE FOR
LONG ISLAND COMPROMISE : 'The status book you'll want to be seen with' STYLIST '[A]
scabrous satire' THE NEW YORKER 'This author's talents are boundless' LA TIMES 'Substantive
and profound' CATHY RENTZENBRINK 'Greatness so often comes at the expense of what is
enjoyable. Long Island Compromise is both and then some' IPAPER 'Exuberant and absorbing'
ATLANTIC PRAISE FOR FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE : ' There is no one that this book isn't for
. . . Pure brilliance' INDIA KNIGHT THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Could be one of the books of my entire
lifetime. I've never felt so seen' GRACE DENT GUARDIAN ' Sharp and wicked insightful and
funny and then suddenly so touching' DAVID NICHOLLS 'A work of utter perfection' ELIZABETH
GILBERT [FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE was a Sunday Times bestseller (UK) in August 2019 and a New
York Times bestseller (USA) in June 2019]
