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    BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS

    Sep 14, 2020 5 minutes
    BY BRENDAN BOYLE

    n Gillian Flynn’s novel , oafish antihero Nick Dunne owns and manages a bar in his hometown with sister Margot, which they cheekily name “The Bar,” later called “very meta” by the detective investigating Nick for his wife’s murder. The hometown is Carthage, Missouri, characterized as “not prosperous anymore, not by a long shot.” Nick’s wife Amy provided the seed capital with a loan from her trust fund; the book repeatedly invokes the 2008 financial crisis as a partial explanation for the couple’s move back home as well as for the town’s “roving bands of homeless,” some of whom take shelter in the abandoned Riverway Mall. The unmistakable subtext is that Nick, Amy, and, by extension, Margot, are gentrifiers, whose wealth allows them suburban distance from the town’s collapsing fortunes as they swoop in and capitalize

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