Was wir haben. Über Besitz, Kapitalismus und den Wert der Dinge

"My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts," Eula Biss writes, "the time before I owned a washing machine and the time after." Having just purchased her first home, she now embarks on a roguish and risky self-audit of the value system she has bought into. The result is a radical interrogation of work, leisure, and capitalism. Described by The New York Times as a writer who "advances from all sides, like a chess player," Biss brings her approach to the lived experience of capitalism. Ranging from IKEA to Beyonc� to Pokemon, across bars and laundromats and universities, she asks, of both herself and her class, "In what have we invested?"