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    The Exiles: A Novel
    The Exiles: A Novel
    The Exiles: A Novel
    Audiobook9 hours

    The Exiles: A Novel

    Written by Allison Lynn

    Narrated by Kate Rudd

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    A couple escaping the over-the-top lifestyle of Manhattan’s Upper East Side move to comparably quaint Newport, Rhode Island, only to be confronted by truths they tried to leave behind.

    Nate, a midlevel Wall Streeter, and his partner Emily are effectively evicted from New York City when they can no longer afford their cramped apartment on the Upper East Side. An out presents itself when Nate’s offered a job in Newport—complete with a bucolic, small-scale, and seemingly affordable new house. They’re eager to start fresh, yet within minutes of arriving in Rhode Island, their car and belongings are stolen, and they’re left with nothing but the keys to an empty house and a bawling 10-month-old son.

    Over the three-day weekend that follows, as Emily and Nate watch their meager pile of cash dwindle and tension increase, the secrets they kept from each other in the city emerge—and threaten to destroy their hope for a future.

    A story about economic precariousness, family history, tainted gene pools, art theft, architecture, and the mad grab for the American Dream, The Exiles bravely explores the weights of our pasts—and whether or not it’s possible to start over.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJul 2, 2013
    ISBN9781469283562
    The Exiles: A Novel
    Author

    Allison Lynn

    Allison Lynn is the recipient of two literary awards for Now You See It: The William Faulkner Medal for Best Novel-in-Progress, awarded by the William Faulkner Society, and The Chapter One Award, awarded by The Bronx Writers' Center. Lynn graduated from Dartmouth College in 1991 and received her MFA in fiction from NYU. She has worked at Harper's Bazaar and People where she was a writer and reporter. She is a freelance writer for In Style, The New York Times Book Review, and Redbook. Last year she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Lehigh University.

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    • 4/5
      Allison Lynn is an extraordinary writer, and The Exiles deserves more than four stars -- I just need to read it a second time to know for sure if I think it merits a full five. It's a witty, brilliantly written piece of work throughout, but it's better than the sum of its parts. That is, upon finishing this book, I thought it was really beautiful and life-affirming.

      I think people who like to laugh at life's (often cruel) absurdity and fans of dramedies will very probably find this to be a truly enjoyable read. I would also recommend it very highly to any aficionado of contemporary, literary novels. If this extract from the inside jacket appeals to you, I'd say you are not being misled in believing you'd like to read The Exiles:

      "...as Emily and Nate watch their...cash dwindle and tensions increase, the secrets they kept from each other...emerge, threatening to destroy their hope for a shared future.
      [This is a] story about losing it all, the complexities of family histories...and the mad grab for the American dream..."

      I was lucky enough to receive my copy of this novel through winning a Goodreads First Reads Giveaway.