Vpervye na russkom — veroyatno, samyj yarkij amerikanskij debyutnyj roman 2019 goda, vybor redakcij New York Times, People i Entertainment Weekly. "Al''truisty" — eto "ostroumnaya tragikomediya o staryh ranah, novyh obidah i vystradannoj mudrosti" (Sunday Express), eto "neveroyatno trogatel''naya istoriya o cene dobryh postupkov" (The Daily Mail), eto "ambicioznoe sochetanie global''noj perspektivy i teploj chelovecheskoj komedii, neizbezhno vyzyvayushchee sravneniya s knigami Dzhonatana Franzena" (The New York Times Book Review).U Artura Al''tera bol''shie problemy. On mozhet lishit''sya svoej professorskoj pozicii v Universitete Sent-Luisa, a s nej — i vozmozhnosti rasplatit''sya po ipotechnomu kreditu;, molodaya podruga, godyashchayasya emu v docheri, gotova mahnut'' na nego rukoj; a sobstvennye deti, Itan i Meggi, otkazyvayutsya s nim razgovarivat''. No u detej, v otlichie ot nego, est'' den''gi — zaveshchannoe im napryamuyu sostoyanie, tajno nakoplennoe umershej zhenoj Artura, Fransin. Teper'' Itan zhivet zatvornikom v prestizhnom kvartale Bruklina, a Meggi praktikuet prinuditel''nuyu bednost'' i pytaetsya posvyatit'' sebya blagotvoritel''nosti. Rasschityvaya ugovorit'' Itana i Meggi pomoch'' emu ne lishit''sya starogo semejnogo doma, Artur priglashaet ih provesti vesennie kanikuly v Sent-Luise — i otkryvaet natural''nyj yashchik Pandory…