Hotel Living

Recalling both the excess of The Wolf of Wall Street , and the drifting narrator of A Single Man , Ioannis Pappos’s debut novel is a portrait of privilege, aspiration, and international finance during the wayward course of the American economy between 9/11 and the 2008 Financial collapse, and is filled with surprisingly tender observations about identity, loneliness, and human connection. “I’m homeless, but in First Class.” Stathis Rakis abandoned his small Greek village for a more worldly life,