Author: Samantha Greene Woodruff
Narrator: Helen Laser
Started: October 23, 2024
Finished: October 24, 2024
Format: Audio
Genre: Historical Fiction

Bea Abramowitz has always had a knack for numbers. When she begins studying the stock market with her father, she decides that she wants to be a broker - something unheard of in the 1920s. While analyzing the patterns of Wall Street, Bea realizes that something is wrong and tries to save her family from the worst of the stock market crash of 1929.

This was a well-written novel about a time when little is known about the women who took chances. The characters were easily likable, and I was interested in seeing how their stories ended. Bea was a woman who knew that her family's success was in her hands and that she did whatever was required to ensure they were not amongst the thousands of people whose lives fell apart during the Great Depression. The only aspect i was not a fan of is that the author based the character on Jesse Livermore and created female characters. I would have the story more if it had been based on a real woman. Men are the main characters in so much of history that it interests me to see what women were accomplishing at the same time.