The eagerly awaited, electrifying new novel from the
author of The Emperor of Ocean Park (“Among the most
remarkable fiction debuts in recent years . . . A
rip-roaring entertainment”—TheBoston
Globe).
When The Emperor of Ocean
Park was published, Time Out declared: “Carter
does for members of the contemporary black upper class what
Henry James did for Washington Square society, taking us
into their drawing rooms and laying their motives bare.”
Now, with the same powers of observation, and the same
richness of plot and character, Stephen L. Carter returns to
the New England university town of Elm Harbor, where a
murder begins to crack the veneer that has hidden the racial
complications of the town’s past, the secrets of a prominent
family, and the most hidden bastions of African-American
political influence.
At the center: Lemaster Carlyle,
the university president, and his wife, Julia Carlyle, a
deputy dean at the divinity school—African Americans living
in “the heart of whiteness.” Lemaster is an old friend of
the president of the United States. Julia was the murdered
man’s lover years ago. The meeting point of these
connections forms the core of a mystery that deepens even as
Julia closes in on the politically earth-shattering motive
behind the murder.
Relentlessly suspenseful,
galvanizing in its exploration of the profound difference
between allegiance to ideas and to people, New England
White is a resounding confirmation of Stephen Carter’s
gifts as a writer of fiction.
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