Woodruff's new novel is The Trade Off.
[My Book, The Movie: The Lobotomist's Wife; My Book, The Movie: The Trade Off; Q&A with Samantha Greene Woodruff]
At Lit Hub the author tagged five standout books that explore the complexities of the stock market:
Hernan Diaz, TrustRead about the other entries on the list.
Probably the most lauded and currently well-known book in my round-up, this Pulitzer Prize winner expertly touches many of the same themes I hope to in The Trade Off. On the surface it is the story of a Wall Street tycoon who foresaw the Great Crash of 1929 and made a fortune from it. (NB: I was already well into writing my new novel when this literary gem came out.)
Cleverly told in four separate fictional texts—a “novel,” an “autobiography,” a “memoir,” and a “diary,” each with a different narrator—Trust takes the classic tale of stock market excess and spins it like a globe, offering the reader a puzzle with an ambiguous solution. It is no surprise that this unexpected tale with an innovative narrative style has appeared on so many “best of” lists.
--Marshal Zeringue