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 ...

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 ...

Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Family Dramas. In her latest novel, Long Island Compromise, the novelist explores how a kidnapping transforms a suburban New York family. Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s new ...

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 ...

In “Long Island Compromise,” she takes us to Hollywood, World War II Poland, Greenwich Village and the wealthier confines of Long Island. She opens with a kidnapping and a warning ...

Author Taffy Brodesser-Akner joins Morning Joe to discuss her new novel 'Long Island Compromise'. California wildfires rage for second day, destroying homes and forcing thousands to flee "We play ...

Long Island Compromise can tick off all three. There are lengthy flashbacks that would make great standalone episodes. The three very different Fletcher siblings are richly drawn. There’s Nathan ...

When Taffy Brodesser-Akner opens a book with, “Do you want to hear a story with a terrible ending?”, the answer is, “Hell, yes.” Brodesser-Akner is one of the best longform journalists in ...

The closer you are to it, the more it pains and threatens. But Long Island Compromise is much more than a darkly humorous satire of the uberwealthy (though it is that, and deliciously so).

It’s a shocking, effective start to a story. Long Island Compromise — the source of the novel’s title is too good to give away — is an examination of suffering’s long tail ...