He soon begins subtly transforming Howland in his image-with unexpected results for Mark and his extended family. Then the town’s first selectman dies suddenly, and Hadi volunteers for office.
Over Karen’s objections, and teaming up with his troubled brother, Gerry, Mark starts buying up local property with cheap debt. Inspired by Hadi, Mark looks around for a surefire investment: the mid-decade housing boom. wealthy-is the engine of Jonathan Dee’s powerful new novel. The collision of these two men’s very different worlds-rural vs. But in the nervous days after 9/11 he flees New York and hires Mark to turn his Howland home into a year-round “secure location” from which he can manage billions of dollars of other people’s money. Philip Hadi used to be one of these people. After being swindled by a financial advisor, what future can Mark promise his wife, Karen, and their young daughter, Haley? He finds himself envying the wealthy weekenders in his community whose houses sit empty all winter. A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK Mark Firth is a contractor and home restorer in Howland, Massachusetts, who feels opportunity passing his family by. a bold, vital, and view-expanding novel.”-George Saunders A rural working-class New England town elects as its mayor a New York hedge fund millionaire in this inspired novel for our times-fiction in the tradition of Jonathan Franzen and Jennifer Egan. Summary: “Summons up a small American town at precisely the right moment in our history.
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