Finished: The Glass Hotel (St. John Mandel) Another page-turning book, and totally not what I thought it was going to be. The story begins with Vincent, a young woman working hard in the world to get by, who accepts the proposition of the uber rich investment planner, Jonathan Alkaitis, to pretend to be his wife. I really don't know how to describe the book, so I'm going to be lazy and use the recap from Amazon. :-) It was a gripping story, not only about Vincent and Jonathan, but also about her relationship with her step-brother and Jonathan's relationships with a few of his clients who he considers friends, but has no problem betraying. Amazon recap below. 

Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the night she meets Jonathan Alkaitis, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the lobby's glass wall: Why don’t you swallow broken glass. High above Manhattan, a greater crime is committed: Alkaitis's billion-dollar business is really nothing more than a game of smoke and mirrors. When his scheme collapses, it obliterates countless fortunes and devastates lives. Vincent, who had been posing as Jonathan’s wife, walks away into the night. Years later, a victim of the fraud is hired to investigate a strange occurrence: a woman has seemingly vanished from the deck of a container ship between ports of call.

 
In this captivating story of crisis and survival, Emily St. John Mandel takes readers through often hidden landscapes: campgrounds for the near-homeless, underground electronica clubs, service in luxury hotels, and life in a federal prison. Rife with unexpected beauty, The Glass Hotel is a captivating portrait of greed and guilt, love and delusion, ghosts and unintended consequences, and the infinite ways we search for meaning in our lives.