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When we meet Carrie Sun, she cant shake the feeling that shes wasting her life. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Carrie excelled in school, graduated early from MIT, and climbed the corporate ladder, all in pursuit of the American dream. But at twenty-nine, shes left her analyst job, dropped out of an MBA program, and is trapped in an unhappy engagement. So when she gets the rare opportunity to work at one of the most prestigious hedge funds in the world, she knows she cant say no. Fourteen interviews later, shes in.

Carrie is the sole assistant to the firms billionaire founder. She manages his work life, becoming the right hand to an investor who can move mountains and markets with a single phone call. Eager to impress, she dives headfirst into the firms culture, which values return on time above all else. A luxury-laden world opens up for her, and Carrie learns that money can solve nearly everything.

Playing the game at the highest levels, amid the ultimate winners in our winner-take-all economy, Carrie soon finds her identity swallowed whole by work. With her physical and mental health deteriorating, she begins to rethink what it actually means to waste ones life. A searing examination of our relationship to work, Carries story illuminates the struggle for balance in a world of extremes: efficiency and excess, status and aspiration, power and fortune. Private Equity is a universal tale of self-invention from a dazzling new voice, daring to ask what were willing to sacrifice to get to the top-and what it might take to break free and leave it all behind.

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Named a most-anticipated book of 2024 by the Sunday Times, Financial Times, Stylist, Vogue, NPR.org, Oprah Daily, Town & Country and more.

A moving story of how easily a life can be submerged by work, and what it takes to regain ones soul Oliver Burkeman, bestselling author of Four Thousand Weeks

What are you willing to sacrifice to get to the top?

What it might take to break free and leave it all behind?

Carrie Sun cant shake the feeling that shes wasting her life.

At twenty-nine, shes left her job, dropped out of an MBA program and is trapped in an unhappy engagement. So when she gets the opportunity to work at one of the most prestigious hedge funds in the world, she cant say no. Carrie is the sole assistant to the firms billionaire founder: she manages his work life, becomes his right hand and learns that money can solve nearly everything.

But amid the ultimate winners in our winner-take-all economy, Carrie soon finds her identity swallowed whole. With her physical and mental health deteriorating, she begins to rethink what it actually means to waste ones life. A searing examination of our relationship to work, Private Equity is a universal tale of self-invention from a dazzling new voice.

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A penetrating but all the more necessary critique of extreme wealth and toxic work culture as [Sun] questions what it really means to waste ones life Oprah Daily, The Most Anticipated Books of 2024

Bound to fascinate and terrify titans of finance in equal measure. Thats because Sun writes of her own experience as the right hand to a billionaire banker, and shares incredible insights from the world that he inhabited, and in which she herself got lost. Its an observant, fascinating look at a rarefied space of power and privilege thats rarely on public view, and an unparalleled peek inside a system that shapes us all, whether we know it or not. Town & Country, Must-Read Books of Winter 2024

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