The Locals Julianne MacLean Publishing Longlisted for the Man Booker

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year

They give of themselves to enrich the hopes and dreams of others

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this book is "far more than an ephemeral political intervention and at the same time more engaged and engaging than is common in academic work

The Locals Julianne MacLean Publishing Longlisted for the Man Booker"Summons up a small American town at precisely the right moment in our history . . . a bold, vital, and view expanding novel." George Saunders A rural working class New England town elects as its mayor a New York hedge fund millionaire in this inspired novel for our times fiction in the tradition of Jonathan Franzen and Jennifer Egan. A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK Mark Firth is a contractor and home restorer in Howland, Massachusetts, who feels