The Rich People Have Gone Away

Ordinary New Yorkers are 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 marvel... A masterpiece'' PAUL HARDING ''Prescient and profound'' BRYAN WASHINGTON 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. ''A lush study'' RAVEN LEILANI ''Riveting and original'' CHARMAINE WILKERSON

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Regina Porter

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Product details

• Authors: Regina Porter
• Publisher: JONATHAN CAPE
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.08.2024
• EAN: 9781787335325
• ISBN: 978-1-78733-532-5
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 215 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; New York, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Crime and mystery fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, c 2020 to c 2029, Relating to African American / Black American people, Narrative theme: Diversity, equality, inclusion, FICTION / Diversity & Multicultural