Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
They dismantled my brass canopy bed and carried it out, a man in front and a man in back. And so begins Irenes journey from a penthouse on the Upper West Side to well, shes not entirely sure where. Irenes father is a downsized investment banker, and her mother is a socialite. When her father cant immediately find new work, the familys lifestyle quickly catches up with them, and theyre eventually forced to move in with Irenes grandfather in the big family farmhouse upstate, where Irene gets to know her grandfather on her own terms and meets a most remarkable family. Downsized is the story of a young woman deciding what she wants for herself when she discovers that the adults in her life are not infallible.