"Having just purchased her first home, the author embarks on a self-audit of the value system she has bought into. The essays in this volume offer an interrogation of work, leisure, and the lived experience of capitalism"--
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"Having just purchased her first home, the author embarks on a self-audit of the value system she has bought into. The essays in this volume offer an interrogation of work, leisure, and the lived experience of capitalism"--
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"I wondered as I was writing this book, what it was I was writing. Was it a collection of poems? An essay in episodes? A series of jokes made at my own expense? A high-stakes game? A midlife crisis? An internal audit? Was it, like Cyril Connolly's book *The Unquiet Grave* ' an experiment in dismantling'?"
This book truly defies categorization! I am not one to *love* money focused books, which when you start reading you might think this is. With a good 20 pages of notes(the last one of which is partially quoted above) and works cited, Eula Biss has broken down a history of consumerism and made it accessible to folks like me, and as I zoomed through it in one day it just blew me away. Not since Hannah Arendt's *Work and Labor* have I been this excited by a book of this type. I already have my first top book of the year and it's right here! Highly Recommended 5/5
[disclaimer: I received this book from an outside source. It was my choice to read and review it]