Private Equity

A riveting memoir that pulls back the curtain on a world of extreme wealth … An insightful look at our relationship to work and what we sacrifice to get to the top * Stylist *Gripping … Pacey and economically written, Private Equity brilliantly strips back the gloss, detailing Sun’s own fast track to burnout while asking if our modern model of work is deeply flawed * Red *A vivid account of a world of excess, power, admiration and status * Spear’s *Private Equity is an extraordinarily gripping and revelatory journey through a world we rarely get to glimpse, despite its influence on our lives. But it is also a moving story of how easily a life can be submerged by work, and what it takes to regain one’s soul – Oliver Burkeman, bestselling author of FOUR THOUSAND WEEKS: TIME MANAGEMENT FOR MORTALSPiercing and propulsive. Carrie Sun’s examinations of this most rarefied stratum are nuanced and poignant. Private Equity is a young woman’s reckoning, set at the summit of money and power that asks the most universal of questions: how much of ourselves do we owe our family and work and how do we find the courage to make our days our own? – Stephanie Danler, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of SWEETBITTERCarrie Sun’s nuanced and shocking memoir depicts a woman’s rise in a high finance dystopia where an employee’s life is never private and nothing is equitable. Private Equity is the account of years of leashed efficiency that left her a wild and breaking heart and, eventually, the courage to speak its bitter, unsparing truth – Honor Moore, author of OUR REVOLUTION, A MOTHER AND DAUGHTER AT MIDCENTURYA fascinating memoir, tense and exciting, taking us inside a rarefied kingdom that, more than we’d like to admit, controls our lives. I highly recommend it – Phillip Lopate

Carrie Sun was born in China and raised in Michigan. She holds an MFA in creative writing from The New School. She lives in Jersey City with her husband. Private Equity is her first book.