Brooklyn writer tackles America’s debt crisis in new satire
Cobble Hill Book Launch Party Slated for July 20
“Anyone who’s ever had trouble making ends meet is going to find themselves in this story,” Brooklyn-based writer Jenna Leigh Evans says of her new novel, “Prosperity,” which is set in a newfangled debtor’s prison. “And hopefully,” she adds, they’ll “even find the humor in it.”
The Gowanus resident has recently announced the release of her darkly humorous book, which will be celebrated with a Brooklyn launch party on July 20 at 61 Local in Cobble Hill.
In “Prosperity,” the nation has finally figured out how to make deadbeats pay up: a modern, luxurious debtors’ prison housed in a shopping mall. When irritable hobo Percy first gets there, she’s as lonely as she is broke,and the only person who will talk to her is Lita, a drug-dealing New Age priestess she’d rather avoid. But when Percy uncovers sinister machinations behind the program’s helpful façade, Lita becomes the only one Percy can trust — and perhaps the key to her survival.