
Lights out in Lincolnwood
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Allyson Ryan
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Fred Berman
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Jesse Vilinsky
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Mark Sanderlin
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By:
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Geoffrey Rodkey
A mordantly funny, all-too-real novel in the vein of Tom Perotta and Emma Straub about a suburban American family that has to figure out how to survive themselves and their neighbors in the wake of a global calamity that upends all of modern life.
It’s Tuesday morning in Lincolnwood, New Jersey, and all four members of the Altman family are busy ignoring each other en route to work and school. Dan, a lawyer turned screenwriter, is preoccupied with satisfying his imperious TV producer boss’ creative demands. Seventeen-year-old daughter Chloe obsesses over her college application essay and the state tennis semifinals. Her vape-addicted little brother, Max, silently plots revenge against a thuggish freshman classmate. And their MBA-educated mom, Jen, who gave up a successful business career to raise the kids, is counting the minutes until the others vacate the kitchen and she can pour her first vodka of the day.
Then, as the kids begin their school day and Dan rides a commuter train into Manhattan, the world comes to a sudden, inexplicable stop. Lights, phones, laptops, cars, trains...the entire technological infrastructure of 21st-century society quits working. Normal life, as the Altmans and everyone else knew it, is over.
Or is it?
Over four transformative, chaotic days, this privileged but clueless American family will struggle to hold it together in the face of water shortages, paramilitary neighbors, and the well-mannered looting of the local Whole Foods as they try to figure out just what the hell is going on.
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Entertaining
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The story involves a suburban family of four – harried, flawed, and unprepared – suddenly emersed in some sort of societal disaster. It’s not really an “apocalypse” book, but a novel that uses the context of a disaster to pressure test the family -- and suburbia. The result is an engaging and fun read, with plenty of “what if that happened to me?” moments available for awkward reflections.
Rodkey’s characters are richly developed, and events cause ever shifting sympathies. The author has a delightful voice and provides many laugh-out-loud lines. Pacing is spot-on.
I was uncertain about the four-readers format. In fact, it works tremendously well. The novel is divided among sections featuring the perspective of each of the four main characters. So one narrator reads for each character’s sections; each narrator is superb.
Fun and Provocative
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I’ll read everything this writer writes.
Funny as hell
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The performance is also strong. I like novels with shifting points-of-view. In this case, there is an actor for the 4 major characters, and it has been well-cast and directed.
For a reader in a certain stage of life (ie, 40s-to-50s, with teenaged kids), you will not be able to put this down (I'm in this category).
Best book I've listened to all year
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Laughed out loud. A little contrived but so what.
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Can’t wait for the next book!
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Annoyed
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Great book!
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Ummm not a comedy/funny IMO
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Definitely an engaging read.
Well written. Plot that grabs you
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