The Locals: A Novel
ααΈα αΆ 2017 Β· Random House
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βSummons up a small American town at precisely the right moment in our history . . . a bold, vital, and view-expanding novel.ββGeorge Saunders
A rural working-class New England town elects as its mayor a New York hedge fund millionaire in this inspired novel for our timesβfiction in the tradition of Jonathan Franzen and Jennifer Egan.
A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK
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, Karen, and their young daughter, Haley? 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 βsecure locationβ from which he can manage billions of dollars of other peopleβs money. The collision of these two menβs very different worldsβrural vs. urban, middle class vs. wealthyβis the engine of Jonathan Deeβs powerful new novel.
Inspired by Hadi, Mark looks around for a surefire investment: the mid-decade housing boom. Over Karenβs objections, and teaming up with his troubled brother, Gerry, Mark starts buying up local property with cheap debt. Then the townβs first selectman dies suddenly, and Hadi volunteers for office. He soon begins subtly transforming Howland in his imageβwith unexpected results for Mark and his extended family.
Here are the dramas of twenty-first-century Americaβrising inequality, working class decline, a new authoritarianismβplayed out in the classic setting of some of our greatest novels: the small town. The Locals is that rare work of fiction capable of capturing a fraught American moment in real time.
Praise for The Locals
βAfter 9/11, New York hedge fund billionaire Philip Hadi retreats to his summer home in the Berkshires. In thrall to his new town, he runs for office to keep it sleepy, sweet and free from tax hikes. Is he benevolent, arrogant or both? No one gets off the moral hook in this propulsive, brilliantly observed study.ββPeople (Book of the Week)
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βThoughtful . . . [Jonathan Deeβs] prescient sensitivity has never been more unnerving. . . . Amid the heat of todayβs vicious political climate, The Locals is a smoke alarm. Listen up.ββRon Charles, The Washington Post
A rural working-class New England town elects as its mayor a New York hedge fund millionaire in this inspired novel for our timesβfiction in the tradition of Jonathan Franzen and Jennifer Egan.
A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK
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, Karen, and their young daughter, Haley? 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 βsecure locationβ from which he can manage billions of dollars of other peopleβs money. The collision of these two menβs very different worldsβrural vs. urban, middle class vs. wealthyβis the engine of Jonathan Deeβs powerful new novel.
Inspired by Hadi, Mark looks around for a surefire investment: the mid-decade housing boom. Over Karenβs objections, and teaming up with his troubled brother, Gerry, Mark starts buying up local property with cheap debt. Then the townβs first selectman dies suddenly, and Hadi volunteers for office. He soon begins subtly transforming Howland in his imageβwith unexpected results for Mark and his extended family.
Here are the dramas of twenty-first-century Americaβrising inequality, working class decline, a new authoritarianismβplayed out in the classic setting of some of our greatest novels: the small town. The Locals is that rare work of fiction capable of capturing a fraught American moment in real time.
Praise for The Locals
βAfter 9/11, New York hedge fund billionaire Philip Hadi retreats to his summer home in the Berkshires. In thrall to his new town, he runs for office to keep it sleepy, sweet and free from tax hikes. Is he benevolent, arrogant or both? No one gets off the moral hook in this propulsive, brilliantly observed study.ββPeople (Book of the Week)
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βThoughtful . . . [Jonathan Deeβs] prescient sensitivity has never been more unnerving. . . . Amid the heat of todayβs vicious political climate, The Locals is a smoke alarm. Listen up.ββRon Charles, The Washington Post
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Jonathan Dee is the author of six previous novels, most recently A Thousand Pardons. His novel The Privileges was a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize and winner of the 2011 Prix Fitzgerald and the St. Francis College Literary Prize. A former contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, a senior editor of The Paris Review, and a National Magazine Awardβnominated literary critic for Harperβs, he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He lives in Syracuse, New York.
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