Hustle, Baby
A Novel
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Hustle, Baby
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Moneesha Misha Bakshi, Nirmala Rajasingam, Isuri Wijesundara, Priya Guns
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Priya Guns
It’s hard enough to be a teenager at the turn of the millennium, and especially so for Dilo, who on top of juggling school and caring for her baby-cousin Maysha, is tasked with hustling to help her family get by. After Dilo’s born-again Christian mother, Mary, and Aunt Anji relocated the family from Sri Lanka fleeing the civil war, one thing’s become blindingly clear—the “rags-to-riches” fairytale they were promised is bullshit. The system is rigged, so sometimes you have to cheat to win.
Their family operates on the margins, working constantly to earn just enough to pay off their last meal. But they can only ignore stacks of overdue rent notices for so long, and when both matriarchs unexpectedly lose their jobs, desperation begins to set in. With eviction imminent, they are thrown a lifeline when they meet Mark, a swaggering day-trader, who promises to turn their small initial investment into thousands of dollars overnight on the stock exchange. At last, a miracle, and the family quickly become his apostles, recruiting investors by spreading the good word of his perpetual 10% returns. But they soon discover what really fuels Mark’s seemingly endless generosity, and when the markets turn they are left to navigate treacherous but familiar terrain. They must do what they always have, find a path where there isn’t one—survive.
With “a ferocity of voice that belongs to Priya Guns alone” (Camille Perri, NYTBR), Hustle, Baby is a fearless and feral novel about one family’s quest to live the good life, and what happens when we push those with nothing past their breaking point.
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Commentaires
A Most Anticipated Book of the Summer: Time, Electric Literature, The Millions
"With swag, humor, and sharp storytelling, Priya Guns delivers a riot of a novel about family, desperation, and just how damn seductive the promise of the American dream can be—especially for those on the margins who’ve spent their whole lives trying to make a dollar out of fifty cents." —Andrew Boryga, author of Victim
"Priya Guns puts a playful spin on the diaspora novel.” —Time
"Guns lovingly portrays her colorful and complex characters and shows how, despite their grit and industriousness, they still have a lot to learn about the hard ways of the world. It’s an entertaining tragicomedy." —Publishers Weekly
"Guns’ prose is fierce and hilarious, straightforward and cutting. In this perfect novel for any reader feeling helpless in a broken financial system, Guns takes a sharp look at the grift and exploitation our economy encourages." —Booklist
“[Hustle, Baby] has the spirit of Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet’s classic 1980s salesman drama… feverish and unsentimental… it’s hard not to appreciate Guns’s swagger, her relentless interrogation of the tragicomic realities of the modern grind.” —Foreign Policy
"Guns serves up an energetic tale of a Tamil family struggling to survive in Toronto." —The Millions
"A combination between Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian and “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, a short story by Flannery O’Connor, Hustle, Baby tells what happens when you buy what a hustler is selling." —Chicago Review of Books
"With swag, humor, and sharp storytelling, Priya Guns delivers a riot of a novel about family, desperation, and just how damn seductive the promise of the American dream can be—especially for those on the margins who’ve spent their whole lives trying to make a dollar out of fifty cents." —Andrew Boryga, author of Victim
"Priya Guns puts a playful spin on the diaspora novel.” —Time
"Guns lovingly portrays her colorful and complex characters and shows how, despite their grit and industriousness, they still have a lot to learn about the hard ways of the world. It’s an entertaining tragicomedy." —Publishers Weekly
"Guns’ prose is fierce and hilarious, straightforward and cutting. In this perfect novel for any reader feeling helpless in a broken financial system, Guns takes a sharp look at the grift and exploitation our economy encourages." —Booklist
“[Hustle, Baby] has the spirit of Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet’s classic 1980s salesman drama… feverish and unsentimental… it’s hard not to appreciate Guns’s swagger, her relentless interrogation of the tragicomic realities of the modern grind.” —Foreign Policy
"Guns serves up an energetic tale of a Tamil family struggling to survive in Toronto." —The Millions
"A combination between Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian and “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, a short story by Flannery O’Connor, Hustle, Baby tells what happens when you buy what a hustler is selling." —Chicago Review of Books
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