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*** ''Riveting and original'' CHARMAINE WILKERSON ''Absolutely unputdownable'' CLAIRE LOMBARDO 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 ''As gripping as it is clever'' i PAPER ''Weaves beauty and humour with pathos... Astounding'' BRYAN WASHINGTON ''A marvel... A masterpiece'' PAUL HARDING ''Glorious'' GARY SHTEYNGART

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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A work of great ambition and elan Observer

Product details

• Authors: Regina Porter
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.08.2025
• EAN: 9781529940329
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-4032-9
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); New York, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Crime & mystery, Fiction: special features, FICTION / Literary, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Crime and mystery fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, c 2020 to c 2029, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Diversity, equality, inclusion, FICTION / Diversity & Multicultural