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"It starts with a child...." So starts Jane Mendelsohn's powerful, riveting new novel. A vintage family tale colliding with the 21st century, Burning up Down the House instructs the story of two females. Neva, from the mountains of Russia, was sold in to the intimacy trade at age 10; Poppy is the followed girl of Steve, the patriarch of an effective NY real property clan, the Zanes. She is his sister's orphaned child. Among these young women will unwittingly help lower this grand household with the inexorability of Greek tragedy, and the other will summon everything she's learned and all her strength to try to save its associates from themselves. In cinematic, dazzlingly explained scenes, we enter into the lavish world of the Zane family, from a wedding in an English manor house to the transglobal world of luxury hotels and restaurants - from NY to Rome, Istanbul to Laos. As we meet all of them - Steve's second better half, his children from his first marriage, the twins from the next, their friends and household staff - we enter into with visceral immediacy an psychological world filled with a vibrant family's loves, jealousies, and yearnings. In lush, exact prose, Mendelsohn transforms their private reviews into a breathtaking drama in regards to a family's struggles to handle the problems of interior rivalry, a tragic love, and a shifting empire. Established against the setting of financial meltdown, globalization, and human being trafficking, the novel finds inextricable associations between the personal and the politics. Dramatic, compassionate, and psychologically complex, Burning up Down the House is both wrenching and unpauseable, an memorable portrayal of a single family swept up in the earthquake that is our contemporary world.
