The Rich People Have Gone Away
A Novel
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- Pedido anticipado
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- Lanzamiento previsto: 6 ago 2024
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- USD 10.99
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- Pedido anticipado
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- USD 10.99
Descripción editorial
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.
“Riveting . . . mines the delicate and treacherous terrain in which human relationships and social divisions are rooted.”—Charmaine Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake
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.
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The striking latest from Porter (The Travelers) revolves around a woman's disappearance during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic. Theo Harper and his pregnant wife, Darla Jacobson, travel to Upstate New York from their Brooklyn condo in March 2020 with plans to hole up in Darla's mother's summer cottage. While on a hike in the Catskills, they get into a heated argument, during which Theo reveals his Black and Indigenous heritage and Darla, who is white, accuses him of being passive aggressive. She then runs into the woods and disappears. After Theo returns to Brooklyn, he reports her disappearance to the police, then hooks up with a previous fling (he and Darla have an open marriage, and he's only nominally concerned about her). Porter flips through several characters' perspectives including Darla's, detailing how she adopts the name of her friend and neighbor Ruby Black and lays low in Niagara Falls. Also featured are Darla's worried mother, who hires a private investigator to search for her, and Ruby, who stays in Brooklyn to watch over the restaurant she owns and is livid when she learns Darla is using her name. Porter keenly explores themes of generational and racial privilege and a community's fragile bonds. This one makes the lockdown worth revisiting.
