About “The Good Side of Bad”
It’s 2008 and there’s more melting down than
the economy.
Peter is a successful Wall Street player until his world is turned upside down by the global economic crisis. The trick is to keep his life and career together while his sisters in Seattle struggle to hold on to jobs, homes and sanity.
Younger sister Florence is losing her grip on reality…she jumped off a bridge, for starters.Mental holograms crack into the fissures of her mind as pieces fall away. Her brother and older sister, Sara, are forced to disrupt their lives in an attempt to save her. Ticking time bombs, real and imagined, challenge them to choose how they will show up for each other and for themselves.
Moving between Seattle and New York, the story is told though the voices of the three siblings as they face
their own crises and try to stay afloat.
With insight and empathy, Olevin explores the
mysterious world of mental illness, the corruption
and greed of financial markets, and the tangled ties
of family. The Good Side of Bad is a finely wrought, humorous and moving journey towards compassion and the other side of loss.
“This is a quirky, wonderfully human tale of failure and redemption. It illuminates how, in hard times, adults can become children and how children can, finally, once again become adults. Although it unflinchingly takes on tough topics, it’s a quick and engaging read everyone can
relate to — I certainly did.”
— Sandra Tsing Loh, Contributing Editor, The Atlantic
