Taffy Brodesser-Akner had me at “hello” with this opening line from her raucous and ravishing “Long Island Compromise,” an epic family saga that joins the ranks of such great American ...

Let’s get this out of the way up front, so to speak: The title of Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s new novel, “Long Island Compromise,” is a reference to anal sex. That says something about the ...

Not so with the Fletchers, the “extraordinarily, absurdly, kidnappably rich” family at the heart of “Long Island Compromise” (Random House), by Taffy Brodesser-Akner. When Carl Fletcher is ...

By Lesley Goldberg Television Editor, West Coast Long Island Compromise follows a suburban American family and the lasting impact the patriarch’s weeklong kidnapping has on his wife and three ...

Five years on, Brodesser-Akner is back with her second novel. On the surface, Long Island Compromise does everything the follow-up to a hit debut novel should do. It is told in the same smart ...

Long Island Compromise is full of very Jewish details: there is family drama over Beamer’s gentile wife naming their children Liesel and Wolfgang (a shanda), there are detailed b’nei mitzvah ...