Best Of: A Novel Of Kidnapping & Family Trauma / Rethinking An Age-Gap Relationship

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🗓️ 13 July 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Taffy Brodesser-Akner's new novel, Long Island Compromise, centers on the kidnapping of a rich businessman, and the impact, decades later, on his grown children. Her previous book, Fleishman Is in Trouble, was adapted into an acclaimed FX/Hulu series.

Jill Ciment met her husband in the 1970s when she was a teenager and he was almost 50. At the time of their first kiss, he was a married father of two; she was his art student. In her memoir Consent she reconsiders the origin story of their marriage.

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0:00.0	Support for this podcast and the following message come from Dignity Memorial.
0:04.6	When your celebration of life is prepaid today, your family is protected tomorrow.
0:09.6	Planning ahead is truly one of the best gifts you can give your family.
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0:19.0	From W.HY in Philadelphia, I'm Tanya Mosley with Fresh Air Weekend. Today Taffy Brodister
0:25.0	actor of the novel Fleshman is in trouble. In the opening of her new novel she
0:30.0	writes, Do you want to hear a story with a terrible ending? What ensues is a
0:34.8	dramatic tale and which wealth is a curse. The book is called Long Island
0:39.4	Compromise and it tells the story of a businessman taken for ransom and the impact on his
0:44.7	children decades later. Also we hear from Jill cement. Her new memoir is called
0:51.0	Consent.
0:52.5	It begins when she was 17, when she falls in love and has a sexual relationship with
0:57.0	her married art teacher who was 30 years older than her.
1:01.3	Even though she wanted the relationship, Summit now wonders if a 17-year-old is even
1:05.9	capable of consent, and if in today's language he would be considered a predator. That's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend.
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