Lillian Fitzgerald has made a terrible mistake. She’s gone a hundred thousand dollars into student loan debt for a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing, only to discover that she might not actually be a good writer.
In an attempt to buy herself enough time to salvage her ambitious but depressing thesis novel, she accepts a part-time job doing SAT tutoring for Calvin Bolt, whose father Henry owns Bolt Bank, the very company that services her student loans. But Lillian soon discovers that dangerous secrets underlie the wealth and power of the Bolt family, secrets that could launch Lillian onto the bestseller list…if she manages to survive long enough to write about them.
In DEBT, Rachel Carey’s sharp, fast-paced satire of New York during the 2008 financial meltdown, it turns out that everyone, even all-powerful billionaire Henry Bolt, is in somebody’s debt.
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Money is the root of all humor In Rachel Carey’s debut novel, Debt, money (or lack thereof) and class hold roughly the same importance they do in a 19th century novel of manners. She has taken the conventions of chic lit (all the fancy restaurants and mindless consumption you see in books like Bergdorf Blondes) and mixed them with a subtly snarky style that evokes a 21st century Jane Austen.She is keenly observant, pricking her characters’ pretensions with subtle gibes that are so sharp you almost don’t notice…
Not paying the piper Funny, engaging novel about modern debt and the price we pay to escape it. Lillian is a graduate with an MFA and $100,000 in student loans. She takes s job tutoring a rich teenager and therein lied the tale. Along the way, Carey brings up different debts from different characters, as well as a debt collector with mob connections. Parts of this novel are canny and snarky Parts of it are sweetly human. Even the most unsympathetic characters are lovable.My only qualm is that…