Join us as we discuss Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner.

In 1980, a wealthy businessman is kidnapped, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to family only slightly the worse, and they move on with their lives. But now, nearly forty years later, it’s clear that perhaps nobody ever got over anything, after all. Each family member has spent decades quietly nursing their traumas and neuroses in their own ways, as the family fortune dwindles and they face questions about the role their wealth has played in their lives. 

Long Island Compromise spans the entirety of one family’s history, winding through decades and generations, all the way to the outrageous present, and confronting the mainstays of American Jewish life: tradition, the pursuit of success, the terror of history, fear of the future, old wives’ tales, evil eyes, ambition, achievement, boredom, dybbuks, inheritance, pyramid schemes, right-wing capitalists, beta-blockers, psychics, and the mostly unspoken love and shared experience that unite a family forever.

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