J H Joof

An American Affair J H Joof

A novel about families affected by the recent financial meltdown and how they are getting by in the aftermath. Former moneylenders in major financial houses in New York and elsewhere who now have to grapple with living lives and in times and bringing up their families in a more difficult financial environment without their erstwhile access to the financial and money markets, institutions and connections they had before the money markets came tumbling down and without their connections in these financial institutions. It`s also about their offspring and families as Borrowers and Lenders have to face and marry into families and with people whose lives and times were deeply and negatively affected by the actions of parents and grans whilst these were moneylenders and operatives in financial and mortgage houses before the financial and mortgage meltdown. Some of these offspring try to build new and different lives from their forebears and make amends for these people`s mistakes and wrongdoings as they face the sons, daughters and families of those who were badly affected by the actions of their parents and grandparents as moneylenders or actors in the financial institutions before the crash. Will they succeed? Can they break away from the consequences of their parents actions as moneylenders against the offspring of the Borrowers some of whom now occupy the positions as moneylenders or regulators of the failed financial institutions their parents and grans used to run before the financial anjd mortgage meltdown? Will the marriages and families of their offspring and grandchildren be affected as the tables turn? How will they cope in this new and more difficult environment without the security and financial opportunities and connections they once had and even as some take a shot at running for high federal and state office?