No class can prepare anyone for a career on Wall Street. While others in Nina Godiwalla's Persian-Indian immigrant community were content to fulfill their parents' dreams, Nina's fierce ambition pulled her from Houston to New York to become a banker. The rarified taste of power left her hungry for more.
Showered with Broadway tickets and ferried around in sleek black town cars, Morgan Stanley recruits led a fast and flashy lifestyle, but at a steep cost. In a world where strip clubs took the place of conference rooms, Nina was driven to fit the mold of her fellow recruits: wealthy, white, and male. But would she have to lose her Southern accent and suppress her family's heritage to prove her worth on the trading floor? Nina Godiwalla offers a behind-the-scenes look at the recklessness that ruled Wall Street during the dot-com boom days.
But Suits is also a story of the family Nina left behind: a story of fathers and daughters, the pursuit of honor, swapping your grandmother's shrimp curry for takeout sushi and cocktails. A vibrant snapshot of an immigrant family with big dreams, Suits reveals how much we've been conditioned to trade for success.
Reviews
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"An intriguing...outsider's tale of lethal ambition." —Kirkus Reviews
"must-read for anyone" —Anne Fisher, Fortune Magazine
"Quite literally, I could not put this book down." —Forbes Magazine
"...told with alarming detail and considerable humility--it's a tale that will help the reader hone his or her ambition down to a finer, more human point." —Los Angeles Times
"This book about choices and their consequences is a gripping read."—Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, bestselling author of The Mistress of Spices
"heartwarming, heartbreaking, and hilarious in one great book. [Suits] is an absolute must-read."—Lois P. Frankel, author of Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office
"Fresh, funny and utterly convincing. Nina Godiwalla has perfect pitch." —Sylvia Ann Hewlett, author of Top Talent