Rich People Have Gone Away
ISBN: 9781787335288
Author : Regina Porter
Published: 2024
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Number of pages: 352
Language: English
Format: Hardback
Format: 223×142
Author : Regina Porter
Published: 2024
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Number of pages: 352
Language: English
Format: Hardback
Format: 223×142
Description
Ordinary New Yorkers are brought together in a story of betrayal, race, what connects us to each other – and what sets us apart***A ROXANE GAY BOOK CLUB 2024 SELECTION***'A marvel... A masterpiece' PAUL HARDING'Prescient and profound' BRYAN WASHINGTONBrooklyn, 2020. Theo Harper and his blonde, blue-eyed, pregnant wife Darla head upstate to their summer cottage to wait out the lockdown. Not everyone in their fancy apartment building has this privilege: not Xavier, the restless teenager in the Cardi B t-shirt, nor Darla’s black best friend Ruby and her partner Katsumi, who stay behind to save their restaurant.During an upstate hike, Theo lets slip a long-held secret about his mixed-up ancestry – and when Darla disappears after the ensuing argument, he suddenly finds himself the prime suspect at the centre of a front-page police search for the perfect missing woman.'A lush study' RAVEN LEILANI'Riveting and original' CHARMAINE WILKERSON
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