Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s second novel will hit bookstore shelves this summer.
Random House will publish the author’s Long Island Compromise, the press announced in a news release. It calls the book “an exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, and the wild legacy of trauma and inheritance.”
Brodesser-Akner, a staff writer for the New York Times Magazine, made her fiction debut in 2019 with Fleishman Is in Trouble, about a man whose estranged wife drops their children off at his Manhattan home and doesn’t return. In a starred review, a critic for Kirkus wrote of the book, “Firing on all circuits, from psychological insight to cultural acuity to narrative strategy to very smart humor. Quite a debut!”
The novel was longlisted for the National Book Award and adapted for a miniseries starring Jesse Eisenberg, Claire Danes, and Lizzy Caplan. The series earned Brodesser-Akner an Emmy nomination for outstanding writing for a limited or anthology series or movie.
Long Island Compromise follows Carl Fletcher, a man trying to come to terms with with his troubled family and his kidnapping four decades.
Brodesser-Akner told Vanity Fair, “[M]y fascination with Long Island culture—which to me has always been equal parts romantic, criminal and tragic—gave birth to the family at the center of the book, the Fletchers—the kind of family that is wealthy enough for their money to have bought them security, but also to leave them in danger.”
Long Island Compromise is slated for publication on July 9.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
