A wealthy family’s life is upturned by a kidnapping in this fine follow-up from the ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’ author
Carl Fletcher is a successful businessman, a factory owner, living with his wife Ruth and their two sons, Nathan and Bernard, on their big estate on Long Island. Their house and its surrounding acres, its pool and guesthouse, are jewels set in the kind of suburb that the children of immigrants aspire to live in. Such places, with their endlessly mown lawns and well-maintained fences, are signifiers of safety. No one can take this away from us, they say. Except, of course, they can.
Younger sister Jenny, born after Carl’s ordeal, seems less damaged, but is distant from the family, not least because she becomes a union organiser, stridently leftwing, standing against the capitalist ethos that has built their family’s fortune. Or has it? For as the novel moves from the 1980s and into the 21st century, the structures of finance and industry change inexorably, cutting away at what the Fletchers have constructed.
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