The Locals is that rare work of fiction capable of capturing a fraught American moment in real time. Here are the dramas of 21st-century America - rising inequality, working class decline, a new authoritarianism - played out in the classic setting of some of our greatest novels: the small town. He soon begins subtly transforming Howland in his image - with unexpected results for Mark and his extended family. Then the town's first selectman dies suddenly and Hadi volunteers for office.

Over Karen's objections, and teaming up with his troubled brother, Gerry, Mark starts buying up local property with cheap debt. : The Locals: A Novel: Signed on title page to previous owner DJ edgewear 9.2 X 6.1 X 1.5 inches 400 pages Signed by Author The Locals: A Novel by Dee, Jonathan: Very Good Hardcover (2017) First Edition First Printing. Inspired by Hadi, Mark looks around for a surefire investment: the mid-decade housing boom. They were saying that all appointments were canceled, indefinitely, that it was the end of everything, but why would they assume that The subway was running again, for example, parts of it. wealthy - is the engine of Jonathan Dee's powerful new novel. The collision of these two men and their very different worlds - rural vs urban, middle class vs wealthy - propels Jonathan Dees new novel to a haunting. The Locals is that rare work of fiction capable of capturing a fraught American moment in real time. The collision of these two men's very different worlds - rural vs. But in the nervous days after 9/11, he flees New York and hires Mark to turn his Howland home into a year-round 'secure location' from which he can manage billions of dollars of other people's money. Philip Hadi used to be one of these people. 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. Mark Firth is a contractor and home restorer in Howland, Massachusetts, who feels opportunity passing his family by. A rural working-class New England town elects as its mayor a New York hedge fund millionaire in this inspired novel for our times - fiction in the tradition of Jonathan Franzen and Jennifer Egan.

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