Inhalt: Carrie Sun can't shake the feeling that she's wasting her life. At twenty-nine, she's 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 can't say no. Carrie is the sole assistant to the firm's 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 one's life. A searing examination of our relationship to work, "Private Equity" is a universal tale of self-invention from a dazzling new voice.