ABOUT
THE BOOK

In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, brutalised, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife, kids and exquisite Long Island home less than a week later, and the family moves on with their gilded lives.

But now, nearly forty years later, it seems that nobody ever got over anything, after all. With a death in the family, the hidden struggles of the Fletchers come bubbling to the surface.

Long Island Compromise spans generations, winding through decades of history and dealing with the timeless questions about wealth, trauma, and the American soul.