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The Arrangements

A Work of Fiction

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
January Lavoy
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Commissioned by the New York Times to write a story on any aspect of the 2016 presidential campaign, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie created a delicious, subversive, incisive fictional account of Melania Trump Once, in the early years, before she fully understood him, she had asked what his favourite flowers were. 'I use the best florists in the city, they're terrific,' he replied, and she realised that taste, for him, was something to be determined by somebody else, and then flaunted. From one of our greatest writers, a short story about today's befuddling political climate, an imaginary account of a day in the life of Melania Trump and a fictional glimpse into the lives of the strange family residing in Trump Tower.

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  • Release date

    June 8, 2017

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      • ISBN: 9780008253714
      • File size: 15259 KB
      • Duration: 00:31:47

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      This pithy story--an homage to MRS. DALLOWAY by Virginia Woolf--features an afternoon and evening in the life of Melania Trump as she prepares for a party. Both Adichie and narrator January LaVoy offer more probable truths than journalistic accounts of Mrs. Trump can manage. As she goes from her Pilates class to receiving the flower delivery she ordered for the evening ahead with her husband and his important business contacts, Mrs. Trump is fully human, no more or less flawed than any other entitled yet sensitive contemporary woman who bases her identity on her husband's interests. Instead of offering character voices, LaVoy makes characters so accessibly mundane that even the most opinionated listener comes to realize that the Trump family is complex and real. F.M.R.G. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine

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