| International Standard Book Number |
9780063482166 (electronic book)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780063482142 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
0063482142 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780063482159 (trade paperback)
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| International Standard Book Number |
0063482150 (trade paperback)
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| Personal Name |
Shriver, Lionel, author.
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| Title Statement |
A better life : a novel / Lionel Shriver.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
289 pages ; 24 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"In a provocative novel addressing contemporary immigration by the sharply observant Lionel Shriver, a New York family takes in a Honduran migrant -- who may or may not be the innocent paragon she claims to be. Gloria Bonaventura, a divorced mother of three living with her 26-year-old son Nico in a sprawling house in Brooklyn, decides to participate in a new city program that would pay her to take in a migrant as a boarder. Liberal to the extreme, Gloria is thrilled when sweet, kind, helpful Martine arrives. But Nico is skeptical. A classic live-at-home Gen Zer with no interest in adulthood, Nico resents any interruption of his "hovercraft repose." As the months go by, Martine endears herself to both Nico's sisters, while finding her way into Gloria's heart and even, briefly, Nico's. But as Martine's disturbingly dodgy compatriots begin to show up, Nico conceives a dark twin hostile to both his mother's altruism and the "migrant crisis" in general -- and turns out to be anything but a reliable narrator himself. Based loosely on a program New York City Mayor Eric Adams floated but did not initiate, A Better Life is Lionel Shriver at her best: smart, funny, and sensitive to the moral nuances of perhaps the most divisive issue of our times"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Immigrants New York (State) New York Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Single mothers New York (State) New York Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Adult children living with parents New York (State) New York Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Shared housing New York (State) New York Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Hondurans United States.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
New York (N.Y.) Emigration and immigration Political aspects Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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