- Street:
- Village Books
- Additional:
- 1200 Eleventh Street
- City:
- Bellingham ,
- Province:
- Washington
- Postal Code:
- 98225
- Country:
- United States
In the winning and utterly original novels Citizen Vince and The Zero, novelist Jess Walter painted an America all his own: A land of real, flawed, human-scale characters coping with the anxieties of their times. Now, in his warmest, funniest, and best novel yet, Walter introduces us to a family faced with imminent fiscal meltdown—and the lengths to which one desperate man will go to save it.
A few years ago, small-time finance journalist Matthew Prior quit his day job and gambled everything on a quixotic idea: a website devoted to financial journalism in the form of poetry. Now, as the global economy collapses, he wakes up one morning to find 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, he wonders: staying up all night worried, driving to the local 7/11 to get milk for his kids, and falling in with two local degenerates after they offer him a hit of high-grade marijuana? Or, he thinks, could this be the solution to all my problems?
Jess Walter is the author of The Zero, a National Book Award finalist; Citizen Vince, which won the Edgar Award for Best Novel; Land of the Blind, and Over Tumbled Graves, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He is also the author of the nonfiction book, Ruby Ridge.
