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.