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Carrie's son is the author of Private Equity, a memoir. Carrie was born in China and raised in Michigan. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the new school. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband. Private Equity is her first book. Welcome, Carrie. Thank you so much for coming on Mom's Don't Have Time to Read Books to Discuss Private Equity, a memoir. Thank you so much, Zibu, for inviting me onto your podcast.

Oh, you're so welcome.

I found your story to be so interesting.

You do a real deep dive into what this particular job and culture was like, but you

wove in so much with your own family and your own sort of vices that get in your way and health.

And well, maybe you should, hold it.

You summarize the book for everybody else.

I was getting ahead of myself here.

Go ahead.

Carrie, what is your book about?

Yeah, it has all those various different threads that I hopefully have woven together into

one complete book.

I see my book as fundamentally a story about self-discovery

and about the detours that we might take in our lives

along the way to finally be where we want to be.

And for me, in particular, I wrote about my long kind of career detour to rediscover, I think this

isn't giving anything away because at the end of the book, I'm rediscovering my love of writing,

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