A review by ula_j
The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter

3.0

Like the book description says, this is about a guy who is unemployed, about to lose his house, and he thinks his wife is cheating on him. I loved the first half of this book (maybe the first 1/3 of the book) but then it got a little crazy towards the end. And i'll put this under a spoiler but he ends up trying to get in the weed dealing business (much like the show Weeds) with ideas to sell it to middle/upper class white folks. He doesn't get anywhere near as far Nancy did in Agrestic because he's an idiot but he tries.
What I do love about this book is that Walter really does great job of writing about the recession. It's a funny and sad chronicle of the times.