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Our book club discusses the introduction to ‘Long Island Compromise.’
There were moments where I felt that if this book was not written by a Jewish person, it would have been accused of being antisemitic, especially the way she describes people’s faces and nose jobs and having characters named things like Sarah Messinger-Schlesinger, which is funny on the one hand but also kind of cringe. Here’s the stereotypical Jewish family; put them in the suburbs; throw a ton of BDSM in that’s gonna make my mom feel uncomfortable. The project of the book that I was really into — a really fascinating idea that is different from a Succession or a Billions or all this kind of stuff — is that it starts with this horrible core of a thing and then you are creating this world that is pretending that this kidnapping did not happen.
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