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The Rich People Have Gone Away
Author: Regina Porter
Format: Paperback
A group of New Yorkers are brought together by the search for a missing woman in this electric novel of secrets, connection and community.
**A Roxane Gay Book Club Pick**
'Absolutely unputdownable' CLAIRE LOMBARDO, author of The Most Fun We Ever Had
'Riveting and original' — CHARMAINE WILKERSON, author of Black Cake
Brooklyn, 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. 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 of relationships' — RAVEN LEILANI, author of Luster
'As gripping as it is clever' i PAPER
'Astounding... We're so lucky to have it' — BRYAN WASHINGTON, author of Memorial
'A marvel... A masterpiece' — PAUL HARDING, author of This Other Eden
'Glorious' — GARY SHTEYNGART, author of Our Country Friends
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 Political Fiction Prize. A graduate of the MFA fiction program at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, her writing has been published in the Harvard Review, Tin House and Oxford Review.
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