"Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiet te\, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On t he night she meets Jonathan Alkaitis\, a hooded figure scrawls a message o n the lobby&rsquo\;s glass wall: \;Why don&rsquo\;t you swallow broken glass. High above Manhattan\, a greater crime is committed: Alkaitis is r unning an international Ponzi scheme\, moving imaginary sums of money thro ugh clients&rsquo\; accounts. When the financial empire collapses\, it obl iterates countless fortunes and devastates lives. Vincent\, who had been p osing as Jonathan&rsquo\;s wife\, walks away into the night. Years later\, a victim of the fraud is hired to investigate a strange occurrence: a wom an has seemingly vanished from the deck of a container ship between ports of call.
\nIn this captivating story of crisis and survival\, Emily St. John Mandel takes readers through often hidden landscapes: campgrounds for the near-homeless\, underground electronica clubs\, the business of i nternational shipping\, service in luxury hotels\, and life in a federal p rison. Rife with unexpected beauty\, \;The Glass Hotel \;is a capt ivating portrait of greed and guilt\, love and delusion\, ghosts and unint ended consequences\, and the infinite ways we search for meaning in our li ves."
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