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100 1  Ridker, Andrew,|eauthor. 
245 14 The altruists :|ba novel /|cAndrew Ridker. 
264  1 New York, New York :|bViking,|c[2019] 
300    308 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    Arthur Alter is in trouble. A middling professor at a 
       Midwestern college, he can't afford his mortgage, he's 
       exasperated his much-younger girlfriend, and his kids 
       won't speak to him. And then there's the money--the small 
       fortune his late wife, Francine, kept secret, which she 
       bequeathed directly to his children.  Those children are 
       Ethan, an anxious recluse living off his mother's money on
       a choice plot of Brooklyn real estate, and Maggie, a would
       -be do-gooder trying to fashion herself a noble life of 
       self-imposed poverty. On the verge of losing the family 
       home, Arthur invites his children back to St. Louis under 
       the guise of a reconciliation. But in doing so, he 
       unwittingly unleashes a Pandora's box of age-old 
       resentments and long-buried memories--memories that orbit 
       Francine, the matriarch whose life may hold the key to 
       keeping them together.  Spanning New York, Paris, Boston, 
       St. Louis, and a small desert outpost in Zimbabwe, The 
       Altruists is a darkly funny (and ultimately tender) family
       saga that confronts the divide between baby boomers and 
       their millennial offspring. It's a novel about money, 
       privilege, politics, campus culture, dating, talk therapy,
       rural sanitation, infidelity, kink, the American beer 
       industry, and what it means to be a "good person." 
650  0 College teachers|vFiction. 
650  0 Inheritance and succession|vFiction. 
655  7 Domestic fiction.|2lcgft