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The Rich People Have Gone Away
Reader Score
71%
71% of readers
recommend this book
Critic Reviews
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AN AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK - A diverse group of New Yorkers are brought together by the search for a missing woman--in this electric novel of secrets, connection, and community.
"Cinematic, preternaturally humane, and absolutely unputdownable--I just loved it."--Claire Lombardo, People "What Your Favorite Authors are Reading This Summer"
"Riveting."--Charmaine Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Time, Kirkus Reviews Brooklyn, 2020. Theo Harper and his pregnant wife, Darla, head upstate to their summer cottage to wait out the lockdown. Not everyone in their upscale Park Slope building has this privilege: not Xavier, the teenager in the Cardi B T-shirt, nor Darla's best friend, Ruby, and her partner, Katsumi, who stay behind to save their Michelin-starred restaurant. During an upstate hike on the aptly named Devil's Path, Theo divulges a long-held secret--and when Darla disappears after the ensuing argument, he finds himself the prime suspect. As Darla's and Theo's families and friends come together to search for her, with Ruby and Katsumi stepping in to broker peace, past and present collide with startling consequences. Set against the pulse of an ever-changing city, The Rich People Have Gone Away connects the lives of ordinary New Yorkers to tell a powerful story of hope, love, and inequity in our times--while reminding us that no one leaves the past behind completely.
"Cinematic, preternaturally humane, and absolutely unputdownable--I just loved it."--Claire Lombardo, People "What Your Favorite Authors are Reading This Summer"
"Riveting."--Charmaine Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Time, Kirkus Reviews Brooklyn, 2020. Theo Harper and his pregnant wife, Darla, head upstate to their summer cottage to wait out the lockdown. Not everyone in their upscale Park Slope building has this privilege: not Xavier, the teenager in the Cardi B T-shirt, nor Darla's best friend, Ruby, and her partner, Katsumi, who stay behind to save their Michelin-starred restaurant. During an upstate hike on the aptly named Devil's Path, Theo divulges a long-held secret--and when Darla disappears after the ensuing argument, he finds himself the prime suspect. As Darla's and Theo's families and friends come together to search for her, with Ruby and Katsumi stepping in to broker peace, past and present collide with startling consequences. Set against the pulse of an ever-changing city, The Rich People Have Gone Away connects the lives of ordinary New Yorkers to tell a powerful story of hope, love, and inequity in our times--while reminding us that no one leaves the past behind completely.
Book Details
- Publisher: Hogarth Press
- Publish Date: Aug 6th, 2024
- Pages: 352
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.30in - 6.40in - 1.30in - 1.25lb
- EAN: 9780593241868
- Categories: • African American & Black - General• Family Life - General• Literary
About the Author
Regina Porter is an award-winning playwright and author of The Travelers, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and longlisted for the Orwell Prize for political fiction. A graduate of the MFA fiction program at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, her writing has been published in the Harvard Review, Tin House, and the Oxford American.
Critics’ reviews
Praise for this book
"The Rich People Have Gone Away is wildly intelligent, brilliantly crafted, prismatic, living and breathing--a remarkable feat of sensation and humanity. Regina Porter is a marvel."--Claire Lombardo, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had "Exquisitely drawn characters, scenes that jump off the page, and international locales that'll make you want to pack a bag and go: The Rich People Have Gone Away is a novel that fearlessly defies conventions to deliver a satiating, five-star experience. A keen observer of people and class, Regina Porter has crafted an inventive, hilarious, and wholly unpredictable work full of vibrant prose and genuine tenderness. . . . A seven-course meal that gets better and better."--Mateo Askaripour, New York Times bestselling author of Black Buck "A lush study of relationships, keen on the particulars of vast human catastrophes."--Raven Leilani, New York Times bestselling author of Luster