The Fortunate Ones

A Novel

Now Available in Paperback

“Tarkington’s understanding of the human heart and mind is deep, wise and uncommonly empathetic.”

- Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife and Love and Ruin

“Tarkington is a gifted storyteller, largely because he knows how to let his finely developed characters do the heavy lifting. An impressive literary balancing act that entertains as it enriches.”

“There's a sharpness to Ed Tarkington's view of the world, an exacting truthfulness of how things work, but he marries it to such an open-hearted and resonant humanity in his writing that it's hard not to place him easily in the company of Pat Conroy and Alice McDermott. In The Fortunate Ones, Tarkington examines privilege and friendship with that same incredible perspective, and he helps us see the difficulties of trying to hold onto yourself even as you want so badly to be transformed. An amazing, thought-provoking novel by one of our most generous writers.”

-Kevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See Here