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The Cave Dwellers

by Christina McDowell
Madeleine Maby
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This "delicious take on the one percent in our nation's capital" (Town & Country) and clever combination of The Bonfire of the Vanities and The Nest explores what Washington, DC's high society members do behind the closed doors of their stately homes.
They are the families considered worthy of a listing in the exclusive Green Book—a discriminative diary created by the niece of Edith Roosevelt's social secretary. Their aristocratic bloodlines are woven into the very fabric of Washington—generation after generation. Their old money and manner lurk through the cobblestone streets of Georgetown, Kalorama, and Capitol Hill. They only socialize within their inner circle, turning a blind eye to those who come and go on the political merry-go-round. These parents and their children live in gilded existences of power and privilege.

But what they have failed to understand is that the world is changing. And when the family of one of their own is held hostage and brutally murdered, everything about their legacy is called into question in this unputdownable novel that "combines social satire with moral outrage to offer a masterfully crafted, absorbing read that can simply entertain on one level and provoke reasoned discourse on another" (Booklist, starred review).

  • Creators

  • Series

    An American Satire

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    May 25, 2021

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781797113586
      • File size: 296094 KB
      • Duration: 10:16:51

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Madeleine Maby narrates this layered satirical novel with a strong sense of story and a fine ability to get inside her characters' psyches. Her emulations of Washington, DC's, powerful and power hungry are nuanced. Her performance reveals the vapid sound of the social climber and the angst of the teenager. The novel is fast paced. Author McDowell draws on her own experience of scandal; her father ended up in prison for fraud. "The cave dwellers"--those with old money and old mansions, the elite of the elite--live uptown existences that events--murder, suicide, and corruption at the highest levels--upend. The story is well researched and packed with careful descriptions of a way of life replete with BOTOX, Herm�s scarves, and secret clubs. A.D.M. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

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  • English

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