White Elephant - A Novel

A turf war between neighbors leads to a small-town crisis in this sharply observed debut novel perfect for fans of Tom Perrotta, Meg Wolitzer, and Celeste Ng. The white elephant looms large over the town of Willard Park: a newly-constructed behemoth of a home, it towers over the quaint houses, including Allison and Ted Millers' tiny hundred year old home. When owner Nick Cox cuts down the Millers' precious red maple--in an effort to make his unsightly property more appealing to buyers--their once serene town becomes a battleground. While tensions between Ted and Nick escalate, other dysfunctions abound: Allison finds herself compulsively drawn to the man who threatens to upend her quietly organized life. A lawyer with a pot habit and a serious mid-life crisis skirts his responsibilities. And in a quest for popularity, a teenage girl gets caught up in a not-so-harmless prank. Newcomers and longtime residents alike clash in conflicting pursuits of the American Dream, with trees mysteriously uprooted, fingers pointed, and lines drawn. White Elephan t is a tangled-web tale of a community on the verge and its all-too-human inhabitants, who long to connect but can't seem to find the words. It's a story about opposing sides struggling to find a middle ground--a parable for our times.

Product details

• Authors: Julie Langsdorf
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9780062857767
• ISBN: 978-0-06-285776-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; WOMEN'S LITERATURE: LITERATURE/FICTION, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Family Life / General, LITERATURE: GENERAL FICTION, FICTION: Romance / New Adult, FICTION: City Life