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Welcome to smalltown Connecticut a place whose inhabitants seem to have it allthe status the homes the money and the ennui Theres Tripp and Virginia beloved hosts whom the community idolizes whose basement hides among other things a secret stash of guns and a drastic plan to survive the end times Theres Gunter and Rachel recent transplants who left New York City to raise their children only to feel both imprisoned by the banality of suburbia And Richard and Margot community veterans whose extramarital affairs and battles with mental health are disguised by their enviably polished veneers and perfect children At the center of it all is the Petra School the most coveted of all the private schools in the state a supposed utopia of mindfulness and creativity with a history as murky and suspect as our characters inner worlds
With deep wit and delicious incisiveness in The Pessimists Bethany Ball peels back the veneer of upperclass white suburbia to expose the destructive consequences of unchecked privilege and moral apathy in a world that is rapidly evolving without them This is a superbly drawn portrait of a community and its couples torn apart by unmet desires duplicity hypocrisy and dangerous levels of discontent
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