Weekend Reading: Lake Success

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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