Having and Being Had

'A major achievement.' <b>CLAUDIA RANKINE</b><br><b></b>'Endlessly absorbing.' <b>SIN&#201;AD GLEESON </b><br>'A probing tour of capitalism and class.' <b>MAGGIE NELSON</b><br>'Exhilarating.' <b>JENNY OFFILL</b><br><br><font size=+1><b>A personal reckoning with the intricacies of money class and capitalism from the <i>N</i></b><b><i>ew York Times</i> bestselling author.</b></font> <br><br>Having just purchased her first home Eula Biss embarks on a roguish and risky self-audit of the value system she has bought into. The result is Having and Being Had: a radical interrogation of work leisure and capitalism. Playfully ranging from IKEA to Beyonc&#233; to Pok&#233;mon across bars and laundromats and universities she asks of both herself and her class 'In what have we invested? <br><br>'As a writer Eula Biss has two great gifts. The first is her ability to reveal to the reader what has all along been hidden in plain sight . . . Her other talent is for laying bare our submerged fears . . . In <i>Having and Being Had</i> both gifts are on display . . . if you are not deeply discomfited by the time you finish reading<i> On Having and Being Had</i> you have no conscience.'<br><b>AMINATTA FORNA <i>GUARDIAN</i></b><br><b><i></i></b><br>'Calls on the controlled rush of poetry and turns experience into art.'<br><b><i>TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT</i></b><br><b><i></i></b><br>'Nuanced . . . Biss' sentences have retained a poet's precision.'<br><b><i>IRISH TIMES</i></b><br><b><i></i></b><br>'Eula Biss's prescient new book gave me new language for things I didn't know I felt . . . A brilliant lacerating re-examination of our relationship to what we own and why and who in turn might own us.'<br><b>ALEXANDER CHEE</b><br><b></b><br>'No contemporary writer I know explores and confronts her own societal responsibilities better than Eula Biss.'<br><b>ALEKSANDER HEMON</b><br><b></b><br>'A meditation on race consumerism and the American caste system. And a wry vivd assessment of our spiritual moment. It is no accident that <i>Having and Being Had</i> reads like the poems money would write if money wrote poems.'<br><b>JEET THAYIL</b>