The Rich People Have Gone Away av Regina Porter

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<p><b>Ordinary New Yorkers are brought together in a story of betrayal, race, what connects us to each other ¿ and what sets us apart<br><br>***A ROXANE GAY BOOK CLUB 2024 SELECTION***</b><br><br><b>''A marvel... A masterpiece'' </b>PAUL HARDING<br><br><b>''Prescient and profound'' </b>BRYAN WASHINGTON<br><br>Brooklyn, 2020. Theo Harper and his blonde, blue-eyed, pregnant wife Darla head upstate to their summer cottage to wait out the lockdown. Not everyone in their fancy apartment building has this privilege: not Xavier, the restless teenager in the Cardi B t-shirt, nor Darla¿s black best friend Ruby and her partner Katsumi, who stay behind to save their restaurant.<br><br>During an upstate hike, Theo lets slip a long-held secret about his mixed-up ancestry ¿ and when Darla disappears after the ensuing argument, he suddenly finds himself the prime suspect at the centre of a front-page police search for the perfect missing woman.<br><br><b>''A lush study'' </b>RAVEN LEILANI<br><br><b>'