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The Breakup
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ISBN10: 1984801376
ISBN13: 9781984801371
Publisher: Random House
Published: Aug 18 2026
Pages: 576
Weight: 1.75
Height: 1.90 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781984801371
Publisher: Random House
Published: Aug 18 2026
Pages: 576
Weight: 1.75
Height: 1.90 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
A marriage cracks apart as a near-future United States redraws its borders in this penetrating and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Fantasyland.
This remarkable book contains multitudes. With wide-ranging intelligence and his trademark wit, Kurt Andersen has written an epic elegy for a country strained past its breaking point.--Tom Perrotta, author of Ghost Town
This remarkable book contains multitudes. With wide-ranging intelligence and his trademark wit, Kurt Andersen has written an epic elegy for a country strained past its breaking point.--Tom Perrotta, author of Ghost Town
Natalie and Asher's marriage has long been marked by fault lines, quiet rifts in how they view their fellow Americans and navigate AI-suffused life in 2045. After twenty-three years together, and after surviving the two years of civil war in the 2030s, Natalie in rural Tennessee (part of the new Free American Republic) and Asher in San Francisco (in the now smaller United States).Natalie and Asher's relationship mirrors America's own unraveling--confused, messy, painful, ambivalent, and impossibly intimate. When Natalie and Asher are brought back into proximity while touring far-flung colleges with their seventeen-year-old, they find themselves on a road trip through a strange, uncertain new American landscape, transformed by both the terrorist uprising and technology, all while dealing with the flux--and resilience--within their own family. They face the questions the nation has reckoned with for a generation: what differences are irreconcilable, and when is something broken worth saving? Razor-sharp, ambitious, ranging from tragic to comic and brimming with imagination, The Breakup is a sweeping story where the personal and sociopolitical intersect in ways bracingly plausible, keenly insightful, and surprisingly hopeful.
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