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Long Island Compromise

Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Pages
465
Started Reading
Jun 22, 2025
Finished Reading
Jun 27, 2025

Long Island reminded me that I had another Long Island book on the shelf. Exhausting characters, but I guess that’s the point. I thought of Uncut Gems: yes, you can create tension and drama from a character’s repeated bad decisions, but it’s hard to know where it tips over into…why should I care?

There is a lot here, probably too much: the corrupting nature of wealth, the way family secrets remain unburied, the way traumatic events ripple throughout families. But it also felt…weightless, at times, like this is all for yuks and there are no real stakes.