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Name: The Party Upstairs by Lee Conell
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Author: Lee Conell
ISBN: 9781984880277

By: Lee Conell

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CategoryFiction
LanguageEnglish
Pages309
Published2020
File size1.7 MB
FormatPDF
ISBN9781984880277

Key ideas from the book

The novel follows a day in the lives of building super Martin and his daughter Ruby.
Ruby’s return to her parents’ apartment brings her ambitions into contact with her financial circumstances.
The co-op’s wealthy tenants and staff inhabit sharply unequal positions within the same building.
A party in the penthouse forms the backdrop to mounting family and building tensions.
The story examines privilege, class, and expectations within a New York community.

About The Party Upstairs by Lee Conell

Set over a single day in a Manhattan co-op, The Party Upstairs follows building super Martin and his daughter Ruby as an early-morning argument unfolds alongside preparations for a party in a wealthy tenant’s penthouse. Ruby, who has returned to her parents’ basement apartment after college, faces the complicated distance between her ambitions and her circumstances.

Published in 2020, the novel explores family expectations, privilege, and class tensions within the building’s close-knit social world. Its alternating perspectives and New York setting may appeal to readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in the unequal relationships that shape everyday life.

About Lee Conell

Lee Conell is an American novelist and short-story writer. Her books include the story collection *Subcortical* and the novel *The Party Upstairs*, set in a New York apartment building. Across both, Conell explores the pressures shaping private lives and relationships, including questions of class, work, family, and belonging. Her fiction pairs close attention to everyday interactions with an interest in the social forces that influence them.