Ah, sweet, sweltering summer! ’Tis the season to bring a compulsively readable novel to the beach — or hole up with one in the privacy of your (hopefully) air-conditioned home. So naturally, we’re bringing back our seasonal pop-up newsletter, Beach Read Book Club.
This time, we’re discussing Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Long Island Compromise, a novel that seems to ask “What if Succession, but for an ultrawealthy family on — you guessed it — Long Island?†It opens with the kidnapping of the father in his driveway and probes the reverberations of that trauma in the years to come.
Starting Wednesday, August 14, Jason P. Frank, Emily Gould, Julie Kosin, Zach Schiffman, Kathryn VanArendonk, and Cat Zhang will be dissecting the book over the course of five weekly newsletters. We’ll also feature — and respond to! — reader questions and comments in each edition. And all of our newsletter readers will receive an exclusive discount code from our partners at Bookshop.org.
We really hope you’ll join us — sign up below!