Entitlement

A taut thrill ride of a novel about money, morality, and madness, as one woman’s plan to improve the world and her life goes in a shocking direction, from the NYT. bestselling author of Leave the World Behind. Brooke Orr is on a mission to change her life and the world. Assisting an octogenarian billionaire in the quest to give away his vast fortune turns out to be deeply satisfying work, a noble life path. All you need to make the world a better place, it turns out, is the right ideals with the right amount of money. She and her billionaire make an uncommon pair: Brooke, 33, is a Black woman raised by a single mother in New York City; Asher Jaffee, 83, is a white business tycoon with an elaborate lifestyle. Each is exhilarated by the new friendship. Asher loves Brooke’s willingness to spar with him, and Brooke finds her proximity to Asher’s power intoxicating, even mind altering. As limits are increasingly pushed and unusual boundaries crossed, the line between need and want blurs dramatically. Taut, unsettling, and alive to the seductive dazzle of power, Entitlement. is a riveting tale for our time, a story of ego that asks big questions about money and morality, class and consumption, race and privilege, and the razor-thin point at which these things can tip toward madness.