The Portable Veblen

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 and the National Book Award 2016. A riotously funny and deeply insightful adventure through capitalism, the medical industry, family, love, war and wedding-planning - from an electrically entertaining new voice Can squirrels speak. Do snails scream. Will a young couple, newly engaged, make it to their wedding day. Will their dysfunctional families ruin everything. Will they be undone by the advances of a very sexy, very unscrupulous heiress to a pharmaceuticals corporation. Is getting married even a remotely reasonable idea in the twenty-first century. And what in the world is a 'Veblen' anyway.