The Money

From Giller Prize winner Lynn Coady, darkly hilarious stories that capture life on the edge—things fall apart, people crack up, and disaster looms.

Lynn Coady’s first two collections, Play the Monster Blind and the Giller Prize‒winning Hellgoing, established her as one of our brightest and boldest practitioners of the short story. Now, with all the unflinching attention to detail and character that make her celebrated novels required reading, Coady gives us The Money, a new collection that feels torn from the tattered heart of our times, as characters navigate the wilds of Covid, internet culture, the #metoo movement, aging, and mortality.

Across seven remarkable tales, we travel from the High Arctic to the hothouse of a TV writers’ room, from the canny negotiations of new relationships to the messy madness of their dissolution, from the quite possibly sacred to the decidedly profane. People refuse to behave; bodies refuse to be contained; characters refuse to be killed. Fierce, funny, and profoundly destabilizing, The Money may well be Coady’s most extraordinary book yet.