TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dee,Jonathan
TI  - The locals: a novel 
SN  - 9780812993226
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House
KW  - Contractors
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Rich people
KW  - Middle class
KW  - City and town life
KW  - Massachusetts
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - "Mark Firth is a home builder in Howland, Massachusetts in the early 2000s who, after being swindled by a financial advisor, feels opportunity passing him by. In the paranoid days after 9/11, a New York money manager, Philip Hadi, moves his family to Howland and hires Mark to turn his house into a "secure location." When Howland's first selectman passes away suddenly, Hadi runs for office, and begins subtly transforming the town in his image. The collision of these two men and their very different worlds -- rural vs urban, middle class vs wealthy -- propels Jonathan Dee's new novel to a haunting conclusion. This is a novel that captures our fraught moment, but is timeless in its depiction of the American family"--
ER  -