Weekend Reading: Lake Success

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Lake Success  will challenge you with an unlikable protagonist. Barry Cohen is an obscenely rich hedge fund manager who decides to leave his wife and autistic son to take a bus ride to reconnect with his college girlfriend. His travelling companion is a suitcase full of expensive watches.

My favorite passage from the book:

“Is it true that your chief compliance officer had no relevant experience in the financial industry? That his sole educational credential was a bachelor’s in Russian studies from Middlebury College? That you met him at a party thrown by your friend Joseph Moses Goldblatt at the Flashdancers Gentlemen’s Club?

Lake Success  uses Barry’s travels, failings and occasional successes to paint a portrait of America wrapped up in the Trump election.

I loved Gary Shteyngart’s writing. You should add Lake Success  to your To-Read List.

Author: Doug Cornelius

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