Keep an eye out for this release by Pulitzer nominee, Jonathan Dee. Bookreporter.com earmarked this book as an August favorite.
Its focus is small town America after 9/11. Complex characters round out this community in the Berkshires on an economic skid. Add a combination of frustrations (sexual and otherwise), bewildered citizens, a vivid plot and you have a recipe for an excellent read.
THE LOCALS by Jonathan Dee (Fiction)
Audiobook available, read by George Newbern and Ray Porter
Mark Firth is a contractor and home restorer in Howland,
Massachusetts, who feels opportunity passing his family by.
After being swindled by a financial advisor, what future can Mark
promise his wife and their young daughter?
He finds himself envying the wealthy
weekenders in his community whose houses sit empty all winter.
Philip Hadi used to be one of these people. But in the nervous days
after 9/11, he flees New York and hires Mark to turn his Howland home
into a year-round “secure location” from which he can manage billions
of dollars of other people’s money. The collision of these two men’s
very different worlds --- rural vs. urban, middle class vs. wealthy ---
is the engine of Jonathan Dee’s new novel.
Reviewed by Harvey Freedenberg.
Audiobook available, read by George Newbern and Ray Porter
Mark Firth is a contractor and home restorer in Howland,
Massachusetts, who feels opportunity passing his family by.
After being swindled by a financial advisor, what future can Mark
promise his wife and their young daughter?
He finds himself envying the wealthy
weekenders in his community whose houses sit empty all winter.
Philip Hadi used to be one of these people. But in the nervous days
after 9/11, he flees New York and hires Mark to turn his Howland home
into a year-round “secure location” from which he can manage billions
of dollars of other people’s money. The collision of these two men’s
very different worlds --- rural vs. urban, middle class vs. wealthy ---
is the engine of Jonathan Dee’s new novel.
Reviewed by Harvey Freedenberg.
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