- Published: 13 August 2024
- ISBN: 9781787335325
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 352
- RRP: $38.00
The Rich People Have Gone Away











- Published: 13 August 2024
- ISBN: 9781787335325
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 352
- RRP: $38.00
Regina Porter has written another marvel of a novel. The Rich People Have Gone Away gives the reader a spiraling cross-section of richly drawn, impeccably observed New Yorkers... A kind of masterpiece of human portraiture that simultaneously renders quintessential depictions of the city, of America, and of the whole world in these first fraught decades of the 21st century
Paul Harding, author of This Other Eden
Wildly intelligent, brilliantly crafted, prismatic, living and breathing - a remarkable feat of sensation and humanity. Regina Porter is a marvel
Claire Lombardo, author of The Most Fun We Ever Had
Exquisitely drawn characters, scenes that jump off the page, and international locales that'll make you want to pack a bag and go, The Rich People Have Gone Away is a novel that fearlessly defies conventions to deliver a satiating, five-star experience. A keen observer of people and class, Regina Porter has crafted an inventive, hilarious, and wholly unpredictable work full of vibrant prose and genuine tenderness. A seven-course meal that gets better and better
Mateo Askaripour, author of Black Buck
A lush study of relationships, keen on the particulars of vast human catastrophes
Raven Leilani, author of Luster
A glorious jambalaya of word, thought and feeling, Regina Porter's prose positively howls from the page. Just when you thought you didn't need another novel set in New York, you suddenly, desperately do
Gary Shteyngart, author of Our Country Friends
Almost uncomfortably apt in its depiction of human behaviour, impeccably accurate in its exploration of how easily we’re divided and incredibly funny even in the most un-funny moments, The Rich People Have Gone Away makes light and dark of one of the strangest times in human history and pulls you mercilessly along for a highly intelligent and thrilling ride
Ore Agbaje-Williams, author of The Three of Us
Riveting and original. The Rich People Have Gone Away mines the delicate and treacherous terrain in which human relationships and social divisions are rooted
Charmaine Wilkerson, author of Black Cake
Affecting, astounding and wholly humbling... Porter weaves beauty and humor with pathos, in prose that is winding, prescient and profound. She shows us worlds inside of worlds - of queerness, of love and relationships, of who we are and who we’re told to be - crafting a narrative that is both precise and thunderous. The Rich People Have Gone Away moves and transcends. We’re so lucky to have it
Bryan Washington, author of Family Meal
Regina Porter’s wit and astute eye for detail made me want to both underline and inhale every line in the same breath. An immersive examination of the human condition in the face of tragedy and triumph
Zakiya Dalila Harris, author of The Other Black Girl
A delight... Regina Porter is a writer of such wit, warmth and profound intelligence. Her indelible characters leap from her imagination to ours
Margot Livesey, author of The Road to Belhaven
Regina Porter trains her panoramic lens on lockdown New York in The Rich People Have Gone Away, an arresting novel of race, class, food, music, and family as thrilling and dynamic as the city itself
Andrew Ridker, author of Hope
A layer cake of suspense. Regina Porter has created a vibrantly alive portrait of several generations of New Yorkers as they fearlessly stake their anchors in the rippling sea of our era
Kashana Cauley, author of The Survivalists
This novel is as gripping as it is clever
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A work of great ambition and elan
Observer
An original and complex novel
UK Press Syndication
Porter’s story has the signposts of a mystery and the economically stratified ensemble cast of a social novel. In chapters centered on characters whose lives are disrupted by the couple’s drama and by lockdown, people sift through pasts whose cruelties match those of their pandemic present
The New Yorker
An astonishing accomplishment . . . I would greedily follow this writer anywhere. . . . This is the Covid novel you didn’t know you wanted to catch
The Washington Post
Terrific . . . Inherent in any discussion of privilege must also be a discussion of race, and Porter examines these inseparable ideas with expert nuance in this novel
Chicago Review of Books
Porter’s story casts clear, vivid light on community, privilege, love, loss and the human dilemma—don’t expect to put this one down ’til you’re done
Chronogram
Settles its gaze on matters of race and class, underlined by its breathtaking ending . . . This restless, intentionally unsettling novel establishes Porter as a distinctive, confident literary voice
Kirkus Review