Download Dear Money AudioBook Free
Which has a light-handed irony that is by changes as measured as Claire Messud's and as biting as Tom Wolfe's, Martha McPhee, National Book Award finalist, explains to the common American story of individuals reinventing themselves, unaware of the price they need to pay for their transformation.
India Palmer, living the cash-strapped life of an novelist, is visiting wealthy friends in Maine whenever a yellow biplane swoops down from the clear blue sky to bring a stranger into her life, one who will change everything. The stranger is Get Johns, a swaggering and intellectually tired trader of mortgage-backed securities. Charmed by India's brains, humor, and inquisitive aspect, and aware of her near-desperate financial situation, Johns poses a proposition: ''Give me eighteen a few months and I'll cause you to a world-class bond trader.'' Dropping her artist's life with surprising ease, India embarks over a raucous ride to the very best of the income chain, leveraging herself with crumbling real house, and she never once appears back--or does she?
