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

2.0

Started it, didn’t love it, skimmed the second half. Funny and acerbic, but the main character was so awash in self-pity that I got bored, listening to him go over the same stuff over and over. And the plot... middle-aged middle class man loses his job and starts amiably selling drugs... it felt not so fresh? Like, “I’m losing my house and my kids will have to go to a bad school,” is not the motivation I’m looking for in my crime fiction.

*shrug* Not for me, I guess.