Category: Historical Fiction
Language: EnglishKeywords: The Complex Morality Of Money
Written by Samantha Greene Woodruff
Read by Helen Laser
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged
A brilliant and ambitious young woman strives to find her place amid the promise and tumult of 1920s Wall Street in a captivating historical novel by the author of The Lobotomistâs Wife.
Bea Abramovitz has a gift for math and numbers. With her father, she studies the burgeoning Wall Street marketâs stocks and patterns in the financial pages. After college sheâs determined to parlay her talent for the prediction game into personal and professional success. But in the 1920s, in a Lower East Side tenement, opportunities for women donât just come knocking. Bea will have to create them.
Itâs easier for her golden-boy twin brother, Jake, who longs to reclaim all their parents lost after fleeing the pogroms in Russia to come to America. Well intentioned but undisciplined, Jake has a charm that can carry him only so far on Wall Street. So Bea devises a plan. Theyâll be a secret team, and sheâll be the brains behind the broker. As Jakeâs reputation, his heedless ego, and the family fortune soar, Bea foresees catastrophe: an impending crash that could destroy everything if she doesnât finally take control.
Inspired by the true story of a pioneering investment legend, The Trade Off is a powerful novel about identity, sacrifice, family loyalties, and the complex morality of money.
A brilliant and ambitious young woman strives to find her place amid the promise and tumult of 1920s Wall Street in a captivating historical novel by the author of The Lobotomistâs Wife.
Bea Abramovitz has a gift for math and numbers. With her father, she studies the burgeoning Wall Street marketâs stocks and patterns in the financial pages. After college sheâs determined to parlay her talent for the prediction game into personal and professional success. But in the 1920s, in a Lower East Side tenement, opportunities for women donât just come knocking. Bea will have to create them.
Itâs easier for her golden-boy twin brother, Jake, who longs to reclaim all their parents lost after fleeing the pogroms in Russia to come to America. Well intentioned but undisciplined, Jake has a charm that can carry him only so far on Wall Street. So Bea devises a plan. Theyâll be a secret team, and sheâll be the brains behind the broker. As Jakeâs reputation, his heedless ego, and the family fortune soar, Bea foresees catastrophe: an impending crash that could destroy everything if she doesnât finally take control.
Inspired by the true story of a pioneering investment legend, The Trade Off is a powerful novel about identity, sacrifice, family loyalties, and the complex morality of money.