A review by tonythep
The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter

3.0

I'm only giving this three stars simply because I completely forgot about it. I hadn't updated my goodreads in about four months until yesterday, and there was a big gap in April where apparently I hadn't read anything. Oops. I read this. I enjoyed it too. It's funny and quirky and cynical and hopeful. Just not that memorable. I would still idolize Jess Walter if he hadn't written anything other than The Zero. And there's always high expectations when the first thing you read by an author completely blows you away. Oh well, I'm still looking forward to his new book...