Awfully Rich: Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Long Island Compromise and more

Money, kidnapping, reality TV, politics, corruption, families, love, and betrayal in all three books on this edition of The Bookshelf. Kate Evans and Jonathan Green, with guests Farz Edraki and Johan Gabrielsson, read Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Long Island Compromise, Porochistaa Khakpour's Tehrangeles and Patrick Holland's Oblivion. Awfully rich, richly awful. BOOKS Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Long Island Compromise, Wildfire Porochistaa Khakpour, Tehrangeles: A Novel, Ultimo Press Patrick Holland, Oblivion, Transit Lounge GUESTS Farz Edraki, Iranian-Australian writer and producer. Presenter of the ABC audio series, 'Days Like These' Johan Gabrielsson, Swedish-born, Sydney-based filmmaker – and Bookshelf regular OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time Hossein Asgari, Only Sound Remains Louisa May Alcott, Little Women Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman is in Trouble Kaveh Akbar, Martyr! James Joyce, Ulysses Graham Greene, The Quiet American Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case Claire Keegan, Walk the Blue Fields Claire Keegan, Antarctica James Salter, works Jonathan Franzen, works Philip Roth, works Miranda July, All Fours Clive James, Poetry Notebook Niklas Turner Olovzon, Iceberg

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