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A review by rholbrook
Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
5.0
Anyone who knows my reading taste knows I love a messy family or rich people behaving badly and Long Island Compromise provided me both in spades.
When wealthy Jewish-American businessman Carl Fletcher is kidnapped and held for ransom, his family eagerly pay up and think that’s the end of their trouble. In fact, it’s just the beginning of the Fletcher family’s unrest. The following decades see Carl’s family grappling with their father’s traumatic ordeal and asking the question, does wealth cause more problems than it can solve?
I heard Taffy in an interview pitching this as “the Jewish version of Succession” which pretty much nails it. It’s a fresh and hilarious spin on the great American family sagas that can stand shoulder to shoulder with our overwhelmingly male canon of great American novelists. I absolutely loved it.
When wealthy Jewish-American businessman Carl Fletcher is kidnapped and held for ransom, his family eagerly pay up and think that’s the end of their trouble. In fact, it’s just the beginning of the Fletcher family’s unrest. The following decades see Carl’s family grappling with their father’s traumatic ordeal and asking the question, does wealth cause more problems than it can solve?
I heard Taffy in an interview pitching this as “the Jewish version of Succession” which pretty much nails it. It’s a fresh and hilarious spin on the great American family sagas that can stand shoulder to shoulder with our overwhelmingly male canon of great American novelists. I absolutely loved it.