Book Discussion Group, Online: WNYC Book Club: 'Long Island Compromise' by Taffy Brodesser-Akner at the Harry Belafonte 115th Street Library
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Reading keeps us connected. Join us for a neighborhood book club at the Harry Belafonte 115th Street Library!
The New York Public Library continues partnering with WNYC to present a book club experience! Each month, we will read a new title leading up to a live conversation, in-person or online, with the author and All of It host Alison Stewart.
This book club will take place ONLINE at the Harry Belafonte 115th Street Library.
The New York Public Library and WNYC—two indispensable New York institutions—are partnering to host a book club that brings New Yorkers together and fosters community.
The December title is Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Long Island Compromise, an exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, and the wild legacy of trauma and inheritance.
In 1980, wealthy businessman Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway on the nicest part of Long Island, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, only slightly the worse. But nearly forty years later, it becomes clear that perhaps nobody ever got over anything as the family confronts the mainstays of American Jewish life: tradition, the pursuit of success, the terror of history, fear of the future, old wives’ tales, evil eyes, ambition, achievement, boredom, orgies, dybbuks, inheritance, pyramid schemes, right-wing capitalists, beta-blockers, and the mostly unspoken love and shared experience that unite a family forever.
Throughout the month, All of It host Alison Stewart and the Library will accompany readers, providing touchpoints on-air and on social media at @allofitwnyc and @nypl. Borrow the book (and more than 300,000 others) for free through the Library’s e-reader app SimplyE, available for iOS and Android devices.
Don't forget to register to join Alison Stewart along with the author and readers everywhere for a live conversation, in-person or online, on Wednesday December 4, 2024, from 6 - 7 PM.
Join our neighborhood book club. Here's how it works:
GET THE BOOK
- Borrow: NYPL Catalog
- E-Book app: SimplyE, available on iOS and Android
- Purchase: The Library Shop — proceeds benefit The New York Public Library
- To see all of our previous WNYC Get Lit titles check out our book club page here!
ACCESSIBILITY NOTES
If you find it hard to read standard print, The New York Public Library’s Andrew Heiskell Library provides free access to talking books, talking book players, braille, a talking book download website and a free talking book and e-braille app for mobile devices. Learn more and apply.
Note: DB = available on BARD in talking book format and as a mailable talking book. Some titles are available through Bookshare and can be found through the Bookshare (BK) link under that title. All Heiskell members can gain access to Bookshare for free. DB (digital talkingbook) / BK (Bookshare)
Please email adultprogramming@nypl.org with any accessibility questions or requests.
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Register above with your email address to attend this book club on Thursday, December 19th at 1pm.