Long Island LitFest Presents
Author of Fleishman is in Trouble, TAFFY BRODESSER-AKNER IN PERSON, with her new book!
Sunday, July 14th at 7 PM
$48 Public | $42 Members
Tickets include an author talk, audience Q&A, book signing, and a copy of
her latest book, Long Island Compromise
Join us for a discussion with Taffy Brodesser-Akner, author of the 2019 New York Times
bestselling Fleishman is in Trouble, which became an FX mini-series
starring Jesse Eisenberg, Claire Danes, Lizzy Caplan, and Adam Brody. Her
second novel, Long Island Compromise, promises to be just as compelling!
Long Island Compromise tells the story of the Fletcher family.
The novel begins the day businessman Carl Fletcher, who is “not just rich but
extraordinarily, absurdly, kidnappably rich,” is abducted from his crescent
shaped driveway. A ransom is demanded, the FBI is called, and mercifully—one
brown paper bag full of cash later—Carl is returned to his wife and kids only
slightly the worse for wear. The Fletchers put the ordeal behind them and move
on, comforted in the realization that though their money may have endangered
them, it was also the thing that assured their safety. The children grow up,
becoming a big time Hollywood screenwriter, a successful lawyer with a sizable
investment portfolio, and a National Merit Scholar. They thrive. Until maybe, they
don’t.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner,
a journalist and author, is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and
the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman
Is in Trouble, which has been translated into more than a dozen languages.
She is also the creator and executive producer of its Emmy-nominated limited
series adaptation for FX. Long Island
Compromise is her second novel.
