Greene Woodruff Samantha - The Trade Off A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 Lobotomist's Wife. Bea Abramovitz has a gift for math and numbers. With her father she studies the burgeoning Wall Street market's stocks and patterns in the financial pages. After college she's 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 don t just come knocking. Bea will have to create them. It's 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. They ll be a secret team and she ll be the brains behind the broker. As Jake's reputation his heedless ego and the family fortune soar Bea foresees catastrophe: an impending crash that could destroy everything if she doesn t 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.
Title: The Trade Off A Novel
Author(s): Greene Woodruff Samantha
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
Barcode: 9781662516467
Pages: 383 Pages
Publication Date: 10/8/2024
Category: Historical Fiction