Regina Porter The Rich People Have Gone Away

About the author:

Regina Porter is an award-winning playwright and the author of The Travelers, which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and longlisted for the Orwell Political Fiction Prize. A graduate of the MFA fiction program at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Porter has had her writing published in the Harvard Review, Tin House, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and the Oxford American. Porter was born in Savannah, Georgia, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

About the book:

In The Rich People Have Gone Away, set in Brooklyn in 2020, Theo Harper and his pregnant wife, Darla, head upstate to their summer cottage to wait out the lockdown. Not everyone in their upscale Park Slope building has this privilege: not teenage Xavier, nor Darla’s best friend, Ruby, and her partner, Katsumi, who stay behind to save their Michelin-starred restaurant. During an upstate hike on the aptly named Devil’s Path, Theo divulges a long-held secret—and when Darla disappears after the ensuing argument, he finds himself the prime suspect. As Darla’s and Theo’s families and friends come together to search for her, with Ruby and Katsumi stepping in to broker peace, past and present collide with startling consequences. Set against the pulse of an ever-changing city, the novel connects the lives of ordinary New Yorkers to tell a powerful story of hope, love, and inequity in our times.

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