
Long Island Compromise
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Edoardo Ballerini
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Taffy Brodesser-Akner
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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 Magazine’s 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, Harper’s 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?”
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, it’s 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 husband’s emotional health. Their three grown children aren’t doing much better: Nathan’s chronic fear won’t allow him to advance at his law firm; Beamer, a Hollywood screenwriter, will consume anything—substance, foodstuff, women—in order to numb his own perpetual terror; and Jenny has spent her life so bent on proving that she’s not a product of her family’s 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 family’s 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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“Joins the pantheon of great American novels . . . Long Island Compromise is an exploration of intergenerational trauma and an unabashed critique of income inequality . . . Brodesser-Akner has written a humane, brazen, gorgeous novel whose words dance exuberantly on the page.”—Los Angeles Times
“Is this book as good [as Fleishman is in Trouble]? It’s better. Sprawling yet nimble, this is [Brodesser-Akner’s] Big American Reform Jewish Novel . . . Brodesser-Akner is empathetic to her characters’ pathological inability to know themselves, but she is also merciless when it comes to the idea that acknowledging confusion is not enough.”—The New York Times
“Comprising immersive, tragicomic deep dives into the Fletchers’ personal pathologies and inner demons . . . Long Island Compromise is ingeniously plotted, its various storylines building toward several extremely satisfying plot twists . . .The potentially corrosive nature of wealth has rarely been explored with such humanity.”—The Atlantic
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By: Ruth Madievsky
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I Made It Out of Clay
- By: Beth Kander
- Narrated by: Gail Shalan
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Nothing’s going well for Eve: she’s single, turning forty, stressed at work and anxious about a recent series of increasingly creepy incidents. Most devastatingly, her beloved father died last year, and her family still won’t acknowledge their sorrow. With her younger sister’s wedding rapidly approaching, Eve is on the verge of panic. She can’t bear to attend the event alone. That’s when she recalls a strange story her Yiddish grandmother once told her, about a protector forged of desperation…and Eve, to her own shock, manages to create a golem.
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Great rom com
- By Sarabeth Salzman on 04-09-25
By: Beth Kander
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Worry
- A Novel
- By: Alexandra Tanner
- Narrated by: Helen Laser
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s March of 2019, and twenty-eight-year-old Jules Gold—anxious, artistically frustrated, and internet-obsessed—has been living alone in the apartment she once shared with the man she thought she’d marry when her younger sister Poppy comes to crash. Indefinitely. Poppy, a year and a half out from a suicide attempt only Jules knows about, searches for work and meaning in Brooklyn while Jules spends her days hate-scrolling the feeds of Mormon mommy bloggers and waiting for life to happen.
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worst book I've ever?
- By Trish♡ on 05-16-24
By: Alexandra Tanner
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Stockholm
- A Novel
- By: Noa Yedlin
- Narrated by: Neil Hellegers, Rebecca Stern
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
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Avishay is up for the Nobel Prize for Economics. There’s just one problem—he’s dead. His four closest friends agree that the well-earned prize must stay within his grasp, and so conspire to conceal Avishay’s corpse until the committee’s announcement. The potential of a glorious legacy for their late friend – and by extension, for them all – is only a mere eight days away. What could go wrong?
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Uninteresting
- By NYC lady on 01-09-24
By: Noa Yedlin
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Thank You for Sharing
- A Novel
- By: Rachel Runya Katz
- Narrated by: Raymond Lee, Tyla Collier
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Daniel Rosenberg and Liyah Cohen-Jackson’s last conversation—fourteen years ago at summer camp—ended their friendship. Until they find themselves seated next to each other on a plane, and bitterly pick up right where they left off. At least they can go their separate ways again after landing... That is, until Daniel's marketing firm gets hired by the Chicago museum where Liyah works as a junior curator, and they’re forced to collaborate with potential career changing promotions on the line.
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Therapy for all
- By Wina Anderson on 09-27-23
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The Secret That Is Not a Secret
- Ten Heretical Tales
- By: Jay Michaelson
- Narrated by: Jay Michaelson
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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The Secret That Is Not a Secret: Ten Heretical Tales invites you into a hidden world of faith, desire, transgression, and revelation. The inhabitants of its interlocking stories are pious and rebellious, mystical and queer, from a Hasidic woman tormented by her husband’s long beard to a closeted gay man repenting of his sins in the mikva. The first book of fiction by Rabbi Dr. Jay Michaelson, winner of the National Jewish Book Award, The Secret That Is Not a Secret is a remarkable work of mystical fiction.
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great read even if you are not jewish!
- By soltex41 on 10-23-24
By: Jay Michaelson
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Kismet
- A Thriller
- By: Amina Akhtar
- Narrated by: Dilshad Vadsaria, Kimberly Woods, Rhett Samuel Price
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Lifelong New Yorker Ronnie Khan never thought she’d leave Queens. She’s not an “aim high, dream big” person - until she meets socialite wellness guru Marley Dewhurst. Marley isn’t just a visionary; she’s a revelation. Seduced by the fever dream of finding her best self, Ronnie makes for the desert mountains of Sedona, Arizona. Healing yoga, transcendent hikes, epic juice cleanses...Ronnie consumes her new bougie existence like a fine wine. But is it, really? Or is this whole self-care business a little sour?
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Read, Donʻt Listen!
- By T on 04-20-25
By: Amina Akhtar
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The Golem of Brooklyn
- A Novel
- By: Adam Mansbach
- Narrated by: Danny Hoch
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
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In Ashkenazi Jewish folklore, a golem is a humanoid being created out of mud or clay and animated through secret prayers. Its sole purpose is to defend the Jewish people against the immediate threat of violence. It is always a rabbi who makes a golem, and always in a time of crisis. But Len Bronstein is no rabbi—he’s a Brooklyn art teacher who steals a large quantity of clay from his school, gets extremely stoned, and manages to bring his creation to life despite knowing little about Judaism and even less about golems.
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THE book for November, 2023!
- By Anonymous User on 11-19-23
By: Adam Mansbach
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I Eat Men Like Air
- By: Alice Berman
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Evans
- Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
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With the snow falling fast on a New Hampshire mansion, seven 20-somethings gather for a weekend that will change their lives irrevocably. The extravagant trip to celebrate Will and Jessica's upcoming nuptials brings together a cast of characters who know each other from Ivy League schools and childhood Upper East Side haunts. There is Lulu, an LA-based Instagram influencer; Maxie, a former Park Avenue princess, now Midwestern housewife; Yael, an ER doctor from Ohio; Rob, a colorless Wall Street trader; Will, a morality-obsessed lawyer; Jessica, Will’s perfectionist bride-to-be....
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Could not stop listening!!
- By K v on 10-03-19
By: Alice Berman
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Bad Summer People
- A Novel
- By: Emma Rosenblum
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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Jen Weinstein and Lauren Parker rule the town of Salcombe, Fire Island every summer. They hold sway on the beach and the tennis court, and are adept at manipulating people to get what they want. Their husbands, Sam and Jason, have summered together on the island since childhood, despite lifelong grudges and numerous secrets. Their one single friend, Rachel Woolf, is looking to meet her match, whether he’s the tennis pro. But even with plenty to gossip about, this season starts out as quietly as any other. Until a body is discovered, face down, off the side of the boardwalk.
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Not a thriller, not a mystery
- By Anonymous User on 05-25-23
By: Emma Rosenblum
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The Netanyahus
- An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family
- By: Joshua Cohen
- Narrated by: Joshua Cohen, David Duchovny, Ethan Herschenfeld
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
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Corbin College, not quite upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian—but not an historian of the Jews—is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies. Mixing fiction with nonfiction, the campus novel with the lecture, The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive comedy of blending, identity, and politics.
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Phillip Roth would certainly listen!
- By Martin on 01-17-22
By: Joshua Cohen
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Memento Mori
- By: Muriel Spark
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
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Muriel Spark's blackly comic masterwork begins with a voice on the telephone warning, "Remember, you must die." The recipient of the grim message is elderly Dame Lettie Colston, but soon 10 of Lettie's oldest friends also become targets of Death's anonymous herald. A bizarre investigation lays bare an intricate network of deception and disloyalty that binds together the vulnerable group of aging eccentrics.
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More Spark, Please!
- By Cariola on 10-27-11
By: Muriel Spark
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Tangerine
- By: Christine Mangan
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik, Erin Mallon
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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The last person Alice Shipley expected to see since arriving in Tangier with her new husband was Lucy Mason. After the accident at Bennington, the two friends - once inseparable roommates - haven't spoken in over a year. Lucy - always fearless and independent - helps Alice emerge from her flat and explore the country. But soon a familiar feeling starts to overtake Alice - she feels controlled and stifled by Lucy at every turn. Then Alice's husband, John, goes missing, and Alice starts to question everything around her.
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A stylish slow burn.
- By Kat - Audible on 03-27-18
By: Christine Mangan
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The Light of Seven Days
- A Novel
- By: River Adams
- Narrated by: River Adams
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
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Living with her Babby after her parents’ death, ten-year-old Dinah Ash is invited to train at Leningrad’s legendary Vaganova Ballet School. In the world of elite dance, she works hard, falls in love, and weathers the Soviet Union’s ubiquitous antisemitism, but despite an impressive talent, she quickly learns that dancers of her “profile” don’t make prima ballerinas. Love of Leningrad, ballet, friends, family, and books sustain Dinah until history intervenes.
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A great story brought to life by beautiful narration
- By enarik on 10-20-23
By: River Adams
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For Never & Always
- By: Helena Greer
- Narrated by: Mara Wilson, Emil Benjamin
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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Hannah Rosenstein should be happy: after a lonely childhood of traipsing all over the world, she finally has a home as the co-owner of destination inn Carrigan’s All Year. But her thoughts keep coming back to Levi "Blue" Matthews: her first love, worst heartbreak, and now, thanks to her great-aunt’s meddling will, absentee business partner.
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Not my thing
- By Vanessa Melendez on 02-15-24
By: Helena Greer
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- Ximena Enriquez
- 08-31-24
We need more from Taffy Brodesser-Akner!
If you like The Royal Tenembaum’s, this book is for you. I just love TBA’s writing and storytelling. So good.
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- Caroline
- 09-12-24
A family story of riches, ruin and redemption
Wow Edwardo Ballerini can sure do a great Yiddish New York accent, very impressive! I liked that the story was based on a lot of historical and geographical references!
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- Susannah 111
- 08-04-24
A horrible family
The Fletchers, the main characters in this book, reminded me of those in Schitt’s Creek with the exception that they were unappealing and humorless. I do not recommend. Although I always enjoy Ballerini’s narration.
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- JONATHAN BRIMS
- 07-28-24
Funny and worth it
Good, really good. A Jewish Franzen. Worth a credit. I would love to see this as a series.
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- Louise
- 09-27-24
Beautifully written
I keep telling everyone that this book reminds me of Goodbye Columbus era Roth. A higher compliment I cannot pay!
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- Grayson Crosby
- 07-27-24
Compelling story, wonderful narration
I could not stop listening to this book. Laugh out loud funny in places, emotional and complex in others - wild but touching story of 3 generations of a family with some of the best narration that I’ve heard. Loved it.
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- Matthew Aaron Dicker
- 10-28-24
Great story and outstanding narration
Fantastic novel, loved the characters and narration. Looking forward to listening to her other books.
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- Natalie
- 02-03-25
A great story
Love the story, really dislike the narrator. I prefer more of a straight read. I don’t think this reader’s choices work for this book. And he mispronounces at least 2 words: perineum and Ativan.
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- Sandra L Talarico
- 01-31-25
Sharp, sardonic, witty
The characterizations and thoughts of each character are articulate, detailed, and very funny. The book was immensely enjoyable and so well written. The story-telling is wonderful.
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- Stacey
- 07-16-24
Surprising
Long Island Compromise was surprisingly powerful. I was annoyed at times, most of the time, at the portrayal of stereotypical Jewish mothers as, disappointed, overbearing, emotionally distant, and controlling women. But, the characters were so well developed that by the end of the book I was a bit dazed. I will ponder my feelings and reaction before I start a new book.
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