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2. www.thejc.com › news › featuresIf Fleishman was in Trouble, the Fletcher family is actually ...

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   1 day ago · Long Island Compromise. by Taffy Brodesser-Akner. Wildfire, £20 How to follow Fleishman is in Trouble, one of the most memorable novels of the last few years, subsequently developed into an ...

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   Jul 8, 2024 · "Long Island Compromise" is a new novel by Taffy Brodesser-Akner, and it opens with a kidnapping. The year is 1980, and Carl Fletcher, a wealthy businessman, is taken for ransom from the...

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   Jul 1, 2020 · Born Stephanie Akner, she grew up in a “very religious” orthodox Jewish family in Brooklyn and her parents divorced when she was six. She has written touchingly about meeting her husband, who ...

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   She married Claude Brodesser in 2006. Brodesser converted to Judaism, a process that eventually led Akner to evaluate and reinforce her own observance of Jewish customs. After marrying, both took hyphenated last names. They have two children.

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   “Brodesser-Akner is a steady, imaginative, insightful writer, and there are riotous passages, haunting dybbuks, and unseen twists that make it thoroughly discussable. Readers will get lost and found in its universe of wealth, family, faith, and other fallible securities.” — Booklist (starred review)

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   Jul 3, 2024 · The book features the Fletchers, a Jewish-American family whose progenitor fled Poland during the Holocaust, and who have since become devastatingly rich off a code-violating polystyrene...

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   Who is Taffy Brodesser-Akner?

   • MOSLEY: If you're just joining us, I'm talking with the New York Times staff writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner. She's written a new novel called "Long Island Compromise," inspired by the actual abduction of a wealthy businessman and what follows after. We'll be right back. This is FRESH AIR. (SOUNDBITE OF JERRY GRANELLI'S "THE GREAT PRETENDER")

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   What is Taffy Brodesser-Akner's 'Long Island compromise' about?

   • Anxiety, sex addiction and depression have taken hold to all three of his children. And as their family fortune dwindles, it becomes clear that none of them have faced their family's biggest trauma. "Long Island Compromise" is Taffy Brodesser-Akner's second novel.

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   Did Taffy Brodesser-Akner go to film school?

   • Taffy Brodesser-Akner adapted her previous novel, "Fleishman Is In Trouble," into a limited FX series on Hulu. Taffy, we talked about how you went to film school. But after film school, you didn't get a screenwriting job, so you went to work for a soap opera magazine.

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   Is Brodesser-Akner a good book?

   • A triumph.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Brodesser-Akner is a steady, imaginative, insightful writer, and there are riotous passages, haunting dybbuks, and unseen twists that make it thoroughly discussable. Readers will get lost and found in its universe of wealth, family, faith, and other fallible securities.” — Booklist (starred review)

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9. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2024/07/08“Long Island Compromise,” Reviewed | The New Yorker

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   Jul 1, 2024 · Not so with the Fletchers, the “extraordinarily, absurdly, kidnappably rich” family at the heart of “Long Island Compromise” (Random House), by Taffy Brodesser-Akner.