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Book Synopsis''A major achievement.'' CLAUDIA RANKINE
''Endlessly absorbing.'' SINÉAD GLEESON
''A probing tour of capitalism and class.'' MAGGIE NELSON
''Exhilarating.'' JENNY OFFILL
A personal reckoning with the intricacies of money, class and capitalism from the New York Times bestselling author.
Having just purchased her first home, Eula Biss embarks on a roguish and risky self-audit of the value system she has bought into. The result is Having and Being Had: a radical interrogation of work, leisure and capitalism. Playfully ranging from IKEA to Beyoncé to Pokémon, across bars and laundromats and universities, she asks, of both herself and her class, In what have we invested?
''As a writer Eula Biss has two great gifts. The first is her ability to reveal to the reader what has, all along, been hidden in plain sight . . . Her other talent is for laying bare our submerged fears . . .
