''A major achievement.'' CLAUDIA RANKINE
''Endlessly absorbing.'' SIN-D GLEESON
''A probing tour of capitalism and class.'' MAGGIE NELSON
''Exhilarating.'' JENNY OFFILL
A personal reckoning with the intricacies of money, class and capitalism from the New York Times bestselling author.
Having just purchased her first home, Eula Biss embarks on a roguish and risky self-audit of the value system she has bought into. The result is Having and Being Had: a radical interrogation of work, leisure and capitalism. Playfully ranging from IKEA to Beyonc-o Pok-n, across bars and laundromats and universities, she asks, of both herself and her class, -In what have we invested?
''As a writer Eula Biss has two great gifts. The first is her ability to reveal to the reader what has, all along, been hidden in plain sight . . . Her other talent is for laying bare our submerged fears . . . In
