Hope by Andrew Ridker

Hope by Andrew Ridker

A>New York Times Editors' Choice>

A>Boston Globe Best Book of the Year>

Riotous. . . . Hilarious . . . impeccably written . . . . Intelligent, bighearted, spew-your-gefilte-fish-funny. --The New York Times Book Review

A writer with this much talent can take his readers anywhere. --The Washington Post

Painfully funny. . . . This rivals Taffy Brodesser-Akner's>Fleishman is in Trouble in its pitch-perfect portrayal of Jewish American life. --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

A comedy of (bad) manners. . . . Engaging. --The Boston Globe

A hilarious and heartfelt novel about a seemingly perfect family in an era of waning American optimism, from the acclaimed author of>The Altruists

The year is 2013 and the Greenspans are the envy of Brookline, Massachusetts, an idyllic (and idealistic) suburb west of Boston. Scott Greenspan is a successful physician with his own cardiology practice. His wife, Deb, is a pillar of the community who spends her free time helping resettle refugees. Their daughter, Maya, works at a distinguished New York publishing house and their son, Gideon, is preparing to follow in his father's footsteps. They are an exceptional family from an exceptional place, living in exceptional times.

But when Scott is caught falsifying blood samples at work, he sets in motion a series of scandals that threatens to shatter his family. Deb leaves him for a female power broker; Maya rekindles a hazardous affair from her youth; and Gideon drops out of college to go on a dangerous journey that will put his principles to the test.

From Brookline to Berlin to the battlefields of Syria, Hope follows the Greenspans over the course of one tumultuous year as they question, and compromise, the values that have shaped their lives. But in the midst of their disillusionment, they'll discover their own capacity for resilience, connection, and, ultimately, hope.

Andrew Ridker was born in 1991. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review Daily, Guernica, Boston Review, The Believer, and St. Louis Magazine; and he is the editor of Privacy Policy: The Anthology of Surveillance Poetics. He is the recipient of an Iowa Arts Fellowship from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. The Altruists is his first novel.

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ISBN 13	9780593493335
ISBN 10	0593493338
Title	Hope
Author	Andrew Ridker
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2023-07-11
Number of pages	432
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