Everyone is shocked that someone so perfect would end her own life-until her cousins receive an ominous warning: One heiress down, four to go. Tragedy strikes the prominent family yet again on a beautiful morning in May when thirty-four-year-old Poppy, the most remarkable Saybrook of them all, flings herself from the window of her office. But be careful what you wish for, because if you were a Saybrook, you'd be haunted by secrets and plagued by a dark streak of luck. Beauties, entrepreneurs, debutantes, and mavens, the Saybrooks are the epitome of high society.
The only thing more flawless than a Saybrook's solitaire is the family behind the diamond empire. In this book the authors, an economist and a journalist, challenge readers to search out the kinds of information that would give them a new and "robust view of reality." Over nine entertaining chapters they demonstrate how not to fall into hackneyed approaches to solving problems and concretely illustrate how to reframe questions since the wrong question will always bring the wrong answer.From Sara Shepard, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Little Liars, comes The Heiresses-a novel about the Saybrooks, a diamond family blessed with beauty and fortune yet plagued by a string of tragic and mysterious deaths. "Freakonomics" was a phenomenon and made all the contrarian sense in the world to its many fans. Still, being conscripted into the Ulms is way more than he asked for. He has always wanted to belong to something but just doesn't have the common touch that would bring him into the close company of friends or family. Paul is forced into a spiritual journey of sorts when his Internet identity is stolen by a strange sect, the Ulms, who follow a figure from the Old Testament. This third novel comically expresses the story of a Park Ave.
"Then We Came to the End" (2007), a funny, tender workplace novel, was Ferris' buzzworthy debut. 'To Rise Again at a Decent Hour' by Joshua Ferris
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