The Hopefuls

Ginger says: Power is the currency in this town: name dropping, security clearances, how many degrees of separation you are from the top jobs. There are acronyms galore and polite questions that are really code and it’s all a study in anthropology, especially for someone observing who doesn’t work in politics like me. That’s the situation for Beth in this smart and funny literary fiction. Beth is, like me, both horrified and fascinated by the ambition, competition, and… the traffic. So much traffic.