El compromiso de Long IslandEl compromiso de Long Island

"En 1980, a Carl Fletcher, un adinerado hombre de negocios, lo secuestran en la entrada de su casa y lo retienen para pedir un rescate. Menos de una semana después, lo devuelven a su mujer e hijos, y la familia sigue con su vida, en la saga del sueño americano, reconfortados por la idea de que, aunque el dinero que tienen es lo que los ha puesto en peligro, también es lo que los mantiene a salvo. Sin embargo, casi cuarenta años después, está claro que tal vez nadie ha superado lo que pasó. Carl se ha pasado todos esos años intentando ponerle punto final a su secuestro en secreto, mientras que su mujer, Ruth, ha desperdiciado su potencial protegiendo la salud emocional de su marido. Y a sus tres hijos no les va mucho mejor: el miedo crónico de Nathan no le deja escalar puestos en su bufete; Beamer, guionista de Hollywood, consume de todo (drogas, comida, sexo) para apaciguar su constante terror, y Jenny se ha pasado la vida entera tan empeñada en demostrar que no es un producto de la patología de su familia que ha acabado definiéndola. Cuando se acercan al peligroso precipicio de otro tipo de supervivencia, se enteran de que la fortuna familiar casi se ha terminado, por lo que tienen que enfrentarse a ciertas preguntas desesperadas sobre qué papel ha interpretado su riqueza en los éxitos y fracasos de su vida." --
"In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway in the nicest part of Long Island, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, only slightly the worse for wear, and the family begins the hard work of trying to move on with their lives and resume their prized places in the saga of the American dream, coming to understand that though their money may have been what put them in danger, it is also what guaranteed them their safety in the end. But forty years later, when Carl's mother dies and the family comes home to mourn her, it becomes clear that nobody ever really got over anything. Carl's wife, Ruth, has spent her potential protecting her husband's emotional health. Their three grown children are each a mess: Nathan cannot seem to advance at his law firm and may have made a terrible investment with his trust fund; Beamer, a Hollywood screenwriter, will consume anything - substance, foodstuff, women - in order to numb his own perpetual terror; and Jenny has spent her life so bent on proving that she is not a product of the family's pathology that she comes to define it. Then there's Carl himself, the prickly, still-terrified father, who has been secretly seeking closure to the matter of his kidnapping for years, and the unthinkable act he commits that will alter the family's path forever"--