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Entitlement / Rumaan Alam.
"Brooke Orr is on a mission to change her life and the world. Assisting an octogenarian billionaire in the quest to give away his vast fortune turns out to be deeply satisfying work, a noble life path. All you need to make the world a better place, it turns out, is the right ideals with the right amount of money. She and her billionaire make an uncommon pair: Brooke, 33, is a Black woman raised by a single mother in New York City; Asher Jaffee, 83, is a white business tycoon with an elaborate lifestyle. Each is exhilarated by the new friendship. Asher loves Brooke's willingness to spar with him, and Brooke finds her proximity to Asher's power intoxicating, even mind altering. As limits are increasingly pushed and unusual boundaries crossed, the line between need and want blurs dramatically."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593718469 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 276 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, [2024]
- Copyright: ©2024
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| Genre: | Psychological fiction. Novels. |
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A woman working as an assistant to an octogenarian billionaire in the process of giving away his huge fortune fights the seduction of money, in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Leave the World Behind. - Penguin Putnam
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âRumaan Alam is a rarity...Entitlement â a psychological thriller that subtly turns into a vicious exposé of affluent liberalismâ also sneaks up on you, and wins you over.ââThe New York Times
"A brilliant exploration of extreme wealth and how it bends the lives of those close to it... Alam keeps things crystal clear and speedway fast."
âThe Boston Globe
âShould come with an undertow warning.â
âLouise Erdrich
A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind
Brooke wants. She isnât 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.
