
The Rich People Have Gone Away
by Regina Porter
Title:
The Rich People Have Gone Away
Author:
Regina Porter
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
352 pages
Publisher:
TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale
ISBN-13:
9781787335288
EAN:
9781787335288
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
582
Dimensions (mm):
223 x 148 x 34
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
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











