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> they focus on money because their parents never told them they were > loved. the main character in lake success is a hedge fund multi-millionaire. and gary shteyngart did hard time in hedge fund circles as part of his research for the book. when he talks about these people at the edinburgh book festival you don’t sense much sympathy. > i spent a lot of time hanging out with people in the world of > finance. i’ve never witnessed such a lack of self-knowledge in my so i wasn’t expecting to find myself rooting for barry cohen as he does a dump and run routine on his wife and autistic son. his hedge fund is tanking, he is under investigation for insider dealing, and he takes off across america on a greyhound bus. i bought lake success because i loved shteyngart’s super sad true love story, because it is one of the first novels written in and about donald trump’s america, and also because i could. it was available earlier than the official publication date for attendees at the book festival. yet the idea of a protagonist with no redeeming features worried me. at the 2017 book festival, lionel shriver described the secrets of novel writing in simple terms: make people want to know what happens next, and make people care about what happens to your we get off to an inauspicious start in this respect. cohen’s indian wife, seema, gives it to him straight about caring for their son, > it? forget your sperm, forget my eggs. he doesn’t have a good > father. his father is not a good man. his father is not a good barry is crossing america in search of himself, in search of an ex gi*lfriend, in search of redemption. but it feels like shteyngart is reluctant for his readers to warm to his main man. in atlanta barry crashes at the home of jeff park, who used to work for him before being fired for a catastrophic spreadsheet error. given their history, jeff is a remarkably generous host. but he is not slow to express his