From National Book Award-finalist Walter comes a hysterically funny--and painfully timely--novel of one man's attempt to save his family from economic disaster by putting his entrepreneurial leanings toward a life of petty crime.

From National Book Award-finalist Walter comes a hysterically funny--and painfully timely--novel of one man's attempt to save his family from economic disaster by putting his entrepreneurial leanings toward a life of petty crime.

**The Financial Lives of the Poets is a comic and heartfelt novel from National Book Award nominee Jess Walter, author of Citizen Vince and The Zero , about how we get to the edge of ruin--and how we begin to make our way back.

Walter tells the story of Matt Prior, who's losing his job, his wife, his house, and his mind--until, all of a sudden, he discovers a way that he might just possibly be able to save it all.... and have a pretty damn great time doing it.