The Rich People Have Gone Away

An engrossing novel of ordinary New Yorkers brought together in a story of betrayal, race, what connects us to each other - and what sets us apart ***A ROXANE GAY BOOK CLUB 2024 SELECTION*** ''A masterpiece of human portraiture'' PAUL HARDING ''A lush study... Keen on the particulars of vast human catastrophes'' RAVEN LEILANI 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 - and 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. From the critically acclaimed author of The Travelers , The Rich People Have Gone Away is an engrossing novel about ordinary New Yorkers brought together in a story of betrayal, race, what connects us to each other - and what sets us apart.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Regina Porter
• Publisher: JONATHAN CAPE
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.08.2024
• EAN: 9781787335288
• ISBN: 978-1-78733-528-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 223 mm x 31 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; New York, New York City, FICTION / City Life, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, c 2020 to c 2029, Relating to African American / Black American people, Narrative theme: Diversity, equality, inclusion