In 'The Vegan,' a refreshing hedge-fund protagonist
Andrew Lipstein achieves the difficult feat of realistically animating a hedge fund manager who talks and moves as real hedge fund managers might, but who is compelling and not overly alienating.
It's a widely accepted truth that hedge-fund protagonists generally aren't interesting. They're too rich for their problems to resonate. Their actual job is often nebulous and complicated and therefore boring. They're almost impossible to make sympathetic. Or, alternatively, they're cartoon villains.
But Andrew Lipstein's effort in is effort is fresh and inventive. The hedge-fund-managing main character, Herschel Caine, is preoccupied with the successful launch
