Gary Sernovitz has spent the last quarter-century working in and observing how money works, from Goldman Sachs to nearly twenty years at a private equity firm where he is now a managing director. He has also brought his keen writer's eye to America and business through two previous published novels, a non-fiction book, and numerous essays and reviews in The New York Times, The New Yorker online, n+1, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere.

"Gary Sernovitz, long one of my favorite writers, has very few literary parallels or precursors. A novelist who writes about the world of big-money finance, but who's also funny, observant, and emotionally acute? Nevermind that he's also a first-class storyteller with a peerless ear for dialogue, The Counting House takes its place alongside William Gaddis's JR and Richard Powers's Gain as one of the most absorbing and entertaining novels about American business ever written." - Tom Bissell, author of Magic Hours

"Not since Liar's Poker has the lowdown on high finance - its hustlers and hucksters, its VCs and B.S.D.s - been delivered with such insider's knowledge or such human comedy. Better yet: this one's a novel! In the university mega-endowment and its beleaguered team of managers, Gary Sernovitz finds an ingenious metaphor for the corrosions of American capitalism: the 'growth' that crowds out growth, and all the pretty things the money underwrites so long as you're willing to trade away your soul."-- Garth Risk Hallberg, author of City on Fire

"Beautiful, very funny and oddly inspiring. A true and hilarious account of what it is like at the coal face of modern high finance, and also a lovely portrait of what it is like to care very much about doing something very hard." -- Matt Levine, Bloomberg Opinion