Adam Haslett follows up his celebrated collection of short stories (YOU ARE NOT A STRANGER HERE) with a big and bold debut novel of 21st-century America. Eight years in the making, UNION ATLANTIC is populated with richly rendered and complex characters, and feels downright prescient in its themes: one of its plot lines involves a hotshot banker named Doug Fanning, whose risky financial dealings have drawn the attention of Henry Graves, the president of the New York Federal Reserve. Henry isn't the only Graves family member Doug has to contend with: he is locked in a legal battle with the dotty but idealistic Charlotte Graves (Henry's sister), who has challenged Doug's building of a garish McMansion on land that the Graves family once donated to their small Massachusetts town. UNION ATLANTIC successfully combines personal, political, and dramatic issues into a compelling, truly modern American narrative.
- Genre: Juvenile Fiction, Fiction + Literature Genres, Fiction + Literature Themes
- Subgenre: Society + Social Issues, Education, General, Types of Characters, Literary, Legal + Courtroom + Crime, Human Qualities + Behavior, Money + Finance
- Publisher: Nan A. Talese
- Pages: 304
- Language: English
- Format: hardcover
- Release Date: February 9, 2010
- Date Published: February 9, 2010
- Author: Adam Haslett