The Financial Lives Of Poets by Jess Walter is #2 on Time Magazines list of top ten fiction books in 2009.
Matt Prior is the modern day Job who quits his job as a journalist to start a web site which never takes off. His wife is having an affair and his father's dementia is slowly getting worse. His two sons, innocents, have no clue how desperate their father is becoming. Matt decides that selling pot can help him earn enough money to stem off house foreclosure.
This book is satirical and quick moving.
The interesting thing is that Matt has no friends, no inner resources, to help through the tough times. He regresses to adolescent behavior of pot smoking and selling to get him through adult hard times.
This novel points out the spiritual vapidness of our postmodern society. It's a shame that Matt has nothing deeper to pull from as he faces such difficult times in his life.
For a fun read, I recommend this book.
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