The Financial Lives of the Poets
by Jess Walter

Summary

Jess Walter's newly-released The Financial Lives of the Poets has been called his warmest, funniest, and best novel yet. It offers a story as real as our own lives: a tale of overstretched accounts, misbegotten schemes, and domestic dreams deferred.

Finance journalist Matthew Prior quit his day job to gamble everything on a quixotic notion: a Web site devoted to financial journalism in the form of blank verse. His big idea—and his wife's eBay resale business—end with a whimper, and the family's debt keeps creeping up.

We meet Matt as he finds himself jobless, hobbled with debt, spying on his wife's online flirtation, and six days away from losing his home. Is this really how things were supposed to end up for me, Matt wonders, driving to 7-11 at midnight to get milk for his sons. When some 7-11 locals offer him a hit of marijuana, an idea comes to Matt. He knows it's a crazy idea, but ... could it be the solution to all his problems?

Follow Matt in his weeklong quest to save his marriage, his mortgage, his sanity, and his dreams. The Financial Lives of the Poets is a laugh-out-loud yet heartfelt novel about how any of us might reach the edge of ruin-and how we can begin to make our way back.

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Praise

"Bitterly funny ... could not be more topical in its depiction of a leveraged to-the-hilt culture run amuck." — Kirkus Reviews

"Who would think financial disaster could be so funny? ... a profound, and profoundly funny, book." — Ben Fountain, author of Brief Encounters of Che Guevara

"A surprisingly heartwarming portrait of a good man trying to find his way back home." — Booklist

About the Author

Jess Walter is the author of five novels, including The Zero, a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award and Citizen Vince, winner of the 2005 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best novel. He has been a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize and the PEN USA Literary Prize in both fiction and nonfiction. His books have been New York Times, Washington Post and NPR best books of the year and have been translated into twenty languages.

Learn more at www.jesswalter.com.

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