Slowly, Mandel reveals how her characters struggle to align their stations in life with their visions for what they could be. There's Paul, Vincent's half brother, a composer and addict in recovery Olivia, an octogenarian painter who invested her retirement savings in Alkaitis' funds Leon, a former consultant for a shipping company and a chorus of office workers who enabled Alkaitis and are terrified of facing the consequences. How did Vincent Smith fall overboard from a container ship near the coast of Mauritania, fathoms away from her former life as Jonathan Alkaitis' pretend trophy wife? In this long-anticipated follow-up to Station Eleven (2014), Mandel uses Vincent's disappearance to pick through the wreckage of Alkaitis' fraudulent investment scheme, which ripples through hundreds of lives.
A financier's Ponzi scheme unravels to disastrous effect, revealing the unexpected connections among a cast of disparate characters.
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