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Shamus Boyle is an upper echelon Financial Banker in the city of Europe Honesty. He’s worked his way up to the top floor with a small group of analysts. When his company, Country Lane Financial, gets a big contract with Maltese and Ferek, the whole stock market gets a significant boost. They’re the biggest drug and beauty company in the world, however, some issues began to get unearthed as the spreadsheets get a thorough inspection. Shamus ends up being picked to be the prime fund manager for the project, even though he’s not fond of the position.

“As intellectually playful as the best of Thomas Pynchon and as sardonically warm as the best of Kurt Vonnegut, The Heap is both a hilarious send-up of life under late capitalism and a moving exploration of the peculiar loneliness of the early 21st century. A masterful and humane gem of a...