Overview

Thirty-one years after workers first broke ground, the magnificent Hotel Neversink in the Catskills finally opens to the public. Then a young boy disappears. This mysterious vanishing--and the ones that follow--will brand the lives of three generations. At the root of it all is Asher Sikorsky, the ambitious and ruthless patriarch whose purchase of the hotel in 1931 set a haunting legacy into motion. His daughter Jeanie sees the Hotel Neversink into its most lucrative era, but also its darkest. Decades later, Asher's grandchildren grapple with the family's heritage in their own ways: Len fights to keep the failing, dilapidated hotel alive, and Alice sets out to finally uncover the murderer's identity. Told by an unforgettable chorus of Sikorsky family members--a matriarch, a hotel maid, a traveling comedian, the hotel detective, and many others--The Hotel Neversink is the gripping portrait of a Jewish family in the Catskills over the course of a century. With an unerring eye and with prose both comic and tragic, Adam O'Fallon-Price details one man's struggle for greatness, no matter the cost, and a long-held family secret that threatens to undo it all.

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"Cohen's voice is perfectly weary as he recounts the experiences of the family as Alice survives a brutal attack and Len desperately schemes to save the hotel.-- ""AudioFile"" ""Price is a sharp writer, and his novel wonderfully critiques family obligation while simultaneously delivering a crafty, sinister whodunit."" -- ""Publishers Weekly"" ""Steven Jay Cohen brings a note of eeriness and elegy to his narration of Price's Edgar Award-winning novel....[A] compelling listen."" -- ""AudioFile"" ""The storytelling structure that Price has constructed will leave the reader slackjawed and eager to reread."" -- "" Booklist (starred review)"" ""Told by a cast of family members that spans generations, this is a family saga with a mystery at its heart and a Doctorow-like take on the rise and fall of a particular era of American life and the American dream. Price has written a compelling chronicle of grand dreams and dark secrets."" -- ""Library Journal (starred review)"""

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Adam O'Fallon Price received his MFA at Cornell University. His work has been published in the Paris Review, Vice, the Iowa Review, Glimmer Train, and elsewhere. His first novel, The Grand Tour, was published in 2016. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Steven Jay Cohen has been telling stories his whole life, and has worked professionally as a storyteller since 1991. A classically trained actor, he has worked both on stage and behind the microphone for most of his career. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Steven now resides in scenic western Massachusetts.

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