# Basket of Deplorables

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- Book: [Basket of Deplorables](https://www.bookquiver.com/tom-rachman/basket-of-deplorables) ([Basket of Deplorables.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/tom-rachman/basket-of-deplorables.md))
- Authors: [Tom Rachman](https://www.bookquiver.com/tom-rachman)
- Publisher: riverrun
- ISBN: 978-17-8648-874-9
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2017-08-24
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL PRIZE Almost-true stories for a post-truth world Wrong! Not Nice! Sad! A Manhattan party on election night. Liberal media types gather with big grins and high-end canapés to watch the Trump-Clinton results come in, expecting a smooth victory for Hillary. As the outcome shifts and they descend into panic, the host stands abruptly before her guests, confessing a shocking crime of years before. What follows is a series of witty, cutting, addictive tales of Trump times, portraying Democrats and Republicans in a divided America, from powerful to powerless, angry to thwarted, from a Starbucks barista who dreams of making it on the stage, to a couple whose online date goes bitterly awry, to a charmingly wicked U. S. businessman living undercover in rural Italy. Basket of Deplorables is a timely take on the craziness of today: almost-true fiction for a post-truth world.