# Shelter in Place

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- Book: [Shelter in Place](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-leavitt/shelter-in-place) ([Shelter in Place.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-leavitt/shelter-in-place.md))
- Authors: [David Leavitt](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-leavitt)
- Publisher: Bloomsbury
- ISBN: 978-14-0884-595-0
- Pages: 384
- Published: 2022-04-14
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

''Very funny and unexpected, a material response to our times, plush as velvet'' Rachel Cusk''A wickedly funny and emotionally expansive novel'' Jenny OffillIt is the Saturday after the 2016 presidential election, and in a plush weekend house in Connecticut, a group of New Yorkers has gathered to recover from what they consider the greatest political catastrophe of their lives. Liberal and like-minded, the friends have come to the countryside in the hope of restoring the bubble in which they have grown used to living. Moving through her days accompanied by a carefully curated salon, Eva Lindquist is a generous hostess with an obsession for decorating. Yet when, in her avidity to secure shelter for herself, she persuades her husband to buy a grand if dilapidated apartment in Venice, she unwittingly sets off the chain of events that will propel him to venture outside the bubble and embark on an unexpected love affair. A slyly comic look at the shelter industry, Shelter in Place is a novel about house and home, safety and freedom and the insidious ways in which political upheaval can undermine even the most seemingly impregnable foundations.