Matchmaker Bookshop welcomes Andrea Uptmor for the release of her debut novel, The New People!
A searing and strikingly intimate debut set in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, about a newly married lesbian couple who move into a flipped foreclosure, unaware that the former homeowners are still living in the attic.
“In The New People, Uptmor moves through examinations of privilege and identity, extraction and gentrification, politics and parenthood, holding it all with a delicate sense of emotion that keeps this debut from ever veering into the territory of diatribe. Instead, Uptmor successfully balances the tender and intimate revelations about these two couples, worlds apart and yet sharing the same roof over their heads, with a sharp sense of humor and wry insights into the many ways the myth of the American Dream leaves victims in its wake. The New People is a carefully crafted story of what makes a house a home: the people that share it, to be sure, but also the community built (or not) around it and the many marks left, both good and bad, on the spaces inhabited.”—Shelf Awareness, Starred Review