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White Elephant

✍ Scribed by Julie Langsdorf

Publisher: HarperCollins;Ecco
Year: 2018;2019
Tongue: English
Weight: 195 KB
Edition: First edition
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0062857754

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✦ Synopsis

"Julie Langsdorf mines wit from the ways that people manage (or don't) to live in close proximity. Her smart, enjoyable suburban comedy is observant and knowing about social selves and hidden selves, and the ways in which they are sometimes made to overlap."
--Meg Wolitzer, author of The Female Persuasion

"A smart, riveting look at what happens to a community when competing visions of the American Dream collide and combust. Langsdorf is a keen observer of human frailty and desire and her characters are darkly funny, recognizably exasperating and deeply memorable."
--Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, author of The Nest

**"Lively and entertaining.... This ambitious and intriguing work about the American suburbs is perfect for fans of Ann Patchett or Meg Wolitzer."
**-- Publishers Weekly
The White Elephant looms large over the quaint suburban town of Willard Park: a gaudy, newly constructed...

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