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Wouldn't you know it, I JUST finished The Payback, which was outstanding. It's a dark comedy where 3 women plan a heist to wipe out the records of their crushing student loans.
Laura Ruth wrote: "Wouldn't you know it, I JUST finished The Payback, which was outstanding. It's a dark comedy where 3 women plan a heist to wipe out the records of their crushing student loans."This is the book I'm planning on using for this prompt! Read the synopsis for it when it first came out and remembered the student debt premise would fit this prompt
A couple of novels I've liked:Memoirs of a Geisha
Proxy
Little Man, What Now?
I feel like I've read a bunch of books where the MC gets sold into slavery or servitude to pay off debts, but they're not coming to me.
I'm picking something with a little bit of Picard in it:Debtors' Planet
Besides financial debt, I'm sure there are lots of books about debts of honor or other types of obligation.
Lucky Stars: A sci-fi comedy series is about a woman who takes a job working for an interplanetary dating service. Her reason for taking the job is a gigantic student debt.
Not much immediately comes to mind but maybe Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family as the blurb mentions bankruptcy or The Night Guests: A Novel where the protagonist is in debt.Alternatively, any non fiction about the various financial crises would feature debt heavily, e.g. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine or Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World.
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Books mentioned in this topic
Can't Pay, Won't Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition (other topics)The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (other topics)
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World (other topics)
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (other topics)
The Night Guests: A Novel (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Collective Debt (other topics)Murray Baker (other topics)
Rufi Thorpe (other topics)
I recently read Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe and, IMO, it would fulfill this prompt. Plus, it was quite thought-provoking and poignant in many ways. Definitely much more interesting to me than I assumed it might be...
Lists that might help:
Characters In Debt From Student Loans
Financial Literacy
Listopia: A book about debt