6/30/2023 0 Comments Emily st john mandel glass hotel![]() ![]() Mandel’s corrupt financial adviser, Jonathan Alkaitis, also has a team of enablers on his staff. It takes a team to execute a massive financial crime, and I just found myself thinking, Who are these people?” “What interested me about Madoff was that he had a staff who also went to prison. “I was fascinated by the Madoff story,” says Mandel. Instead, a Madoff-like Ponzi scheme provides Mandel a point of departure for a much bigger-and stranger-novel about how the decisions we make affect not just our own lives, but the lives of everyone around us. ![]() John Mandel’s new novel, The Glass Hotel (Knopf, March 24), may dramatize large-scale financial fraud, but it’s definitely not about disgraced financier Bernie Madoff, the author cautions. ![]()
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