Ebook {Epub PDF} The Comedown by Rebekah Frumkin

 · The Comedown is a romp which never loses track of its compassion, messy in a charismatic, lifelike way, a giant, leaping wash of twentieth and twenty-first century Americana which never lapses into cliche. Frumkin’s characters linger long after the final page, such that finishing the book is a comedown of its own.3/4(8). A blistering dark comedy, Rebekah Frumkin's The Comedown is a romp across America, from the Kent State shootings to protest marches in Chicago to the Florida Everglades, that explores delineating lines of race, class, religion, and time. Scrappy, street smart drug dealer Reggie Marshall has never liked the simpering addict Leland Bloom-Mittwoch, which doesn't stop Leland from looking up to Reggie Price: $  · A dazzling epic that follows two very different families in Cleveland across generations, beginning with their patriarchs, who become irrevocably intertwined one fateful nightA blistering dark /5(2).

Rebekah Frumkin's debut, "The Comedown," is the drugs-and-crime tragedy of two Cleveland clans discovering the fluidity of life and of the self. In The Comedown, Rebekah Frumkin deftly navigates time, space, and love to bring together the characters in her gripping, entertaining, and satisfying first novel. Courtney Naliboff lives, writes, teaches, and parents on North Haven, an island off the coast of Maine. Rebekah Frumkin's debut novel does not disappoint on this front. The Comedown is sprawling, and it is full of intrigue: a vanished father figure, a suitcase full of drug money, a pair of vindictive half-brothers, lots of ill-advised sex. Though the overarching plot can be hard to track, the book delights at the sentence level, where Frumkin.

Rebekah Frumkin’s debut novel does not disappoint on this front. The Comedown is sprawling, and it is full of intrigue: a vanished father figure, a suitcase full of drug money, a pair of vindictive half-brothers, lots of ill-advised sex. Though the overarching plot can be hard to track, the book delights at the sentence level, where Frumkin masterfully assembles the small details that illustrate two families’ capacities for ruthlessness and love. Rebekah Frumkin paints a number of unhappy family portraits in The Comedown. It takes a generation to resolve the inciting incident between Reggie Marshall and Leland Bloom-Mittwoch Sr. involving a drug deal and a briefcase full of money. The Comedown was a compelling read because the characters and settings are layered and rich. The Comedown is a romp which never loses track of its compassion, messy in a charismatic, lifelike way, a giant, leaping wash of twentieth and twenty-first century Americana which never lapses into cliche. Frumkin’s characters linger long after the final page, such that finishing the book is a comedown of its own.