The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter
This book came highly recommended, lots of 5 star reviews on Amazon. One even says this book "perfectly captures the plight and desperation of today's displaced executive". Really??
Matt is a reporter who quits his job to realize his dream of starting a financial website for poets. Until he finds out that his credit cards are maxed out, his house is going into foreclosure and his wife has stocked the garage with soon to be valuable stuff she bought on eBay. He's hardly a person anyone should take financial advice from.
One night he goes out to pick up something at the 7 Eleven and ends up befriending some characters who turn out to be drug dealers. As they drag him deeper into their web, he thinks that selling pot is the answer to his financial nightmare. I don't need to tell you the rest of the story only to say Matt's life goes even further south from there.
If this book is the story of the future of America then I am going back to the store to buy that bumper sticker I saw the other day. It said, "Where am I going? And why am I in a hand basket?"
This book came highly recommended, lots of 5 star reviews on Amazon. One even says this book "perfectly captures the plight and desperation of today's displaced executive". Really??
Matt is a reporter who quits his job to realize his dream of starting a financial website for poets. Until he finds out that his credit cards are maxed out, his house is going into foreclosure and his wife has stocked the garage with soon to be valuable stuff she bought on eBay. He's hardly a person anyone should take financial advice from.
One night he goes out to pick up something at the 7 Eleven and ends up befriending some characters who turn out to be drug dealers. As they drag him deeper into their web, he thinks that selling pot is the answer to his financial nightmare. I don't need to tell you the rest of the story only to say Matt's life goes even further south from there.
If this book is the story of the future of America then I am going back to the store to buy that bumper sticker I saw the other day. It said, "Where am I going? And why am I in a hand basket?"
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