num_pages: 339
description: When his dream of the perfect marriage the perfect son and the perfect life implodes a Wall Street millionaire takes a cross-country bus trip in search of his college sweetheart and ideals of youth in the long-awaited novel his first in seven years from the acclaimed bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story. Myopic narcissistic hilariously self-deluded and divorced from the real world as most of us know it hedge fund manager Barry Cohen oversees $2.4 billion in assets. Deeply stressed by an SEC investigation and by his 3 year-old-sons diagnosis of autism he flees New York on a Greyhound bus in search of a simpler more romantic life with his old college sweetheart whom he hasn't seen or spoken to in years. Meanwhile reeling from the fight that caused Barry's departure his super-smart wife Seemaa driven first-generation American who craved a picture-perfect life with all the accoutrements of a huge bank accounthas her own demons to face. How these two imperfect characters navigate the Shteyngartian chaos of their own making is the heart of this biting brilliant emotionally resonant novel very much of our times.
language: English
title: Lake Success
publisher: Random House