Join us on Thursday, September 26 at 7pm PT when we celebrate the release of Rumaan Alam's new novel, Entitlement, with Anna Wiener at 9th Ave!
Free to Attend, Please RSVP
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link below:
https://youtube.com/live/qFTYInFeV_8
Praise for Entitlement
"Should come with an undertow warning . . . I was pulled under. Rumaan Alam has mastered that eerie moment when an ordinary gesture has the potential for disaster."--Louise Erdrich, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Night Watchman
"Entitlement is needle-sharp: discomfiting, disquieting, mesmerizing. Alam taps deep into the greed and ambition that make us human."--Rebecca Makkai, New York Times bestselling author of The Great Believers
"Reading Entitlement felt like having a vise slowly tightened around my heart. . . . Elegant, precise and devastating."
--Charles Yu, National Book Award-winning author of Interior Chinatown
About Entitlement
A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind.
Brooke wants. She isn't in need, but there are things she wants. A sense of purpose, for instance. She wants to make a difference in the world, to impress her mother along the way, to spend time with friends and secure her independence. Her job assisting an octogenarian billionaire in his quest to give away a vast fortune could help her achieve many of these goals. It may inspire new desires as well: proximity to wealth turns out to be nothing less than transformative. What is money, really, but a kind of belief?
Taut, unsettling, and alive to the seductive distortions of money, Entitlement is a riveting tale for our new gilded age, a story that confidently considers questions about need and worth, race and privilege, philanthropy and generosity, passion and obsession. It is a provocative, propulsive novel about the American imagination.
About Rumaan Alam
Rumaan Alam is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Leave the World Behind, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and a major motion picture, as well as two other novels. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn.
About Anna Wiener
Anna Wiener is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, and the author of "Uncanny Valley" (2020). She lives in San Francisco.
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Free to Attend, Please RSVP
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link below:
https://youtube.com/live/qFTYInFeV_8
Praise for Entitlement
"Should come with an undertow warning . . . I was pulled under. Rumaan Alam has mastered that eerie moment when an ordinary gesture has the potential for disaster."--Louise Erdrich, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Night Watchman
"Entitlement is needle-sharp: discomfiting, disquieting, mesmerizing. Alam taps deep into the greed and ambition that make us human."--Rebecca Makkai, New York Times bestselling author of The Great Believers
"Reading Entitlement felt like having a vise slowly tightened around my heart. . . . Elegant, precise and devastating."
--Charles Yu, National Book Award-winning author of Interior Chinatown
About Entitlement
A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind.
Brooke wants. She isn't in need, but there are things she wants. A sense of purpose, for instance. She wants to make a difference in the world, to impress her mother along the way, to spend time with friends and secure her independence. Her job assisting an octogenarian billionaire in his quest to give away a vast fortune could help her achieve many of these goals. It may inspire new desires as well: proximity to wealth turns out to be nothing less than transformative. What is money, really, but a kind of belief?
Taut, unsettling, and alive to the seductive distortions of money, Entitlement is a riveting tale for our new gilded age, a story that confidently considers questions about need and worth, race and privilege, philanthropy and generosity, passion and obsession. It is a provocative, propulsive novel about the American imagination.
About Rumaan Alam
Rumaan Alam is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Leave the World Behind, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and a major motion picture, as well as two other novels. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn.
About Anna Wiener
Anna Wiener is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, and the author of "Uncanny Valley" (2020). She lives in San Francisco.
Join us on Thursday, September 26 at 7pm PT when we celebrate the release of Rumaan Alam's new novel, Entitlement, with Anna Wiener at 9th Ave!
Free to Attend, Please RSVP
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link below:
https://youtube.com/live/qFTYInFeV_8
Praise for Entitlement
"Should come with an undertow warning . . . I was pulled under. Rumaan Alam has mastered that eerie moment when an ordinary gesture has the potential for disaster."--Louise Erdrich, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Night Watchman
"Entitlement is needle-sharp: discomfiting, disquieting, mesmerizing. Alam taps deep into the greed and ambition that make us human."--Rebecca Makkai, New York Times bestselling author of The Great Believers
"Reading Entitlement felt like having a vise slowly tightened around my heart. . . . Elegant, precise and devastating."
--Charles Yu, National Book Award-winning author of Interior Chinatown
About Entitlement
A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind.
Brooke wants. She isn't in need, but there are things she wants. A sense of purpose, for instance. She wants to make a difference in the world, to impress her mother along the way, to spend time with friends and secure her independence. Her job assisting an octogenarian billionaire in his quest to give away a vast fortune could help her achieve many of these goals. It may inspire new desires as well: proximity to wealth turns out to be nothing less than transformative. What is money, really, but a kind of belief?
Taut, unsettling, and alive to the seductive distortions of money, Entitlement is a riveting tale for our new gilded age, a story that confidently considers questions about need and worth, race and privilege, philanthropy and generosity, passion and obsession. It is a provocative, propulsive novel about the American imagination.
About Rumaan Alam
Rumaan Alam is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Leave the World Behind, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and a major motion picture, as well as two other novels. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn.
About Anna Wiener
Anna Wiener is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, and the author of "Uncanny Valley" (2020). She lives in San Francisco.
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Free to Attend, Please RSVP
Masks Encouraged for In-Person Attendance
Or watch online at the link below:
https://youtube.com/live/qFTYInFeV_8
Praise for Entitlement
"Should come with an undertow warning . . . I was pulled under. Rumaan Alam has mastered that eerie moment when an ordinary gesture has the potential for disaster."--Louise Erdrich, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Night Watchman
"Entitlement is needle-sharp: discomfiting, disquieting, mesmerizing. Alam taps deep into the greed and ambition that make us human."--Rebecca Makkai, New York Times bestselling author of The Great Believers
"Reading Entitlement felt like having a vise slowly tightened around my heart. . . . Elegant, precise and devastating."
--Charles Yu, National Book Award-winning author of Interior Chinatown
About Entitlement
A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind.
Brooke wants. She isn't in need, but there are things she wants. A sense of purpose, for instance. She wants to make a difference in the world, to impress her mother along the way, to spend time with friends and secure her independence. Her job assisting an octogenarian billionaire in his quest to give away a vast fortune could help her achieve many of these goals. It may inspire new desires as well: proximity to wealth turns out to be nothing less than transformative. What is money, really, but a kind of belief?
Taut, unsettling, and alive to the seductive distortions of money, Entitlement is a riveting tale for our new gilded age, a story that confidently considers questions about need and worth, race and privilege, philanthropy and generosity, passion and obsession. It is a provocative, propulsive novel about the American imagination.
About Rumaan Alam
Rumaan Alam is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Leave the World Behind, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and a major motion picture, as well as two other novels. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn.
About Anna Wiener
Anna Wiener is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, and the author of "Uncanny Valley" (2020). She lives in San Francisco.
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