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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The New York Times Book Review Financial Times The Washington Post Time Los Angeles Times New York Post Town amp Country Good Housekeeping Kirkus Reviews
Finalist for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize A perfect novel for these times and all times the single textual artifact from the pandemic era I would place in a time capsule as a representation of all that is good and true and beautiful about literatureMolly Young The New York Times Editors Choice
Eight friends one country house and six months in isolationa novel about love friendship family and betrayalhailed asa virtuoso performance USA Today and an homage to Chekhov with four romances and a finale that will break your heart The Washington Post
In the rolling hills of upstate New York a groupof friends and friendsoffriends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic Over the next six months new friendships and romances will take hold while old betrayals will emerge forcing each character to reevaluate whom they love and what matters most The unlikely cast of characters includes a Russianborn novelist his Russianborn psychiatrist wife their precocious child obsessed with Kpop a struggling Indian American writer a wildly successful Korean American app developer a global dandy with three passports a Southern flamethrower of an essayist and a movie star the Actor whose arrival upsets the equilibrium of this chosen family
Both elegiac and very very funny Our Country Friends is the most ambitious book yet by the author of the beloved bestseller Super Sad True Love Story
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