Escapist Financial Fiction

Review of Lake Success and The Glass Hotel

Financial fiction is always loosely based on some reality or truth out there in the world. Both books are easy-to-read and reflective of how professional choices impact personal realities. The storytelling is phenomenal and engrossing.

Lake Success is a 'big-hearted portrait of an imperfect family' about a hedge-fund manager in New York who is under investigation by the SEC and flees in search of his college sweetheart. Matt Levine was consulted in the writing.

The Glass Hotel is the latest from Emily St. John Mandel about the relationships and fall-out over a Bernie Madoff inspired Ponzi scheme. Beautifully written and intertwined with plenty of relationship drama.

Both are good escapist tales if you are looking for a distraction to help clear your mind from immediate matters.