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The Woman of Wall Street

May 2014

Laura and BUYING IN are the cover story for the May issue of (201) Magazine. (Yes, Laura dresses like that all the time.)

Laura Herzog

January 7, 2014

Listen to Laura and Cary Barbor talk about Buying In.

Cary Barbor

December 29, 2013

The Citizen names Buying In one of the best books of 2013.

Diane LaRue

December 18, 2013

Laura and Buying In are featured among Goings on About Town

The New Yorker

December 2, 2013

“Wall Street banker Laura Hemphill took her seven years laboring in the world of finance and spun them into a work of fiction that pulls back the door on life of the privileged elite.”

Rosa Colucci

December 1, 2013

“Former Wall Street financier Laura Hemphill pens a riveting novel about what it takes to make it in the world of finance, particularly as a young woman competing with the boys.”

Emily Laurence

December 2013

Glamour names Buying In one of its picks for December, along with Dave Eggers’ The Circle

Glamour

November 27, 2013

BookPage names Buying In its book of the day.

Arlene McKanic

November 15, 2013

Bustle.com calls Buying In "a new member of a genre of novels that depicts the stubbornness and anxiety of living in New York and having ambition. Let’s call it 'Lean In Lit.'" In this interview, Laura talks about Buying In, finance, and Lena Dunham.

Claire Luchette

November 11, 2013

Laura and Nancy Mauro discuss Wall Street, donut myth-making, and workplace snoops for Canteen Magazine.

Canteen Magazine

November 8, 2013

Largehearted Boy features a playlist for Buying In, which it calls "an impressive debut novel set in the world of high finance, a true literary thriller."

Largehearted Boy Book Notes

November 4, 2013

"A solid, suspenseful Wall Street tale."

Kirkus

November 2, 2013

Bloomberg names Buying In one of its November hilights.

Laurie Muchnick

November 1, 2013

Buying In gets a shout-out in the San Francisco Chronicle's Grabbers Books column.

Grabbers Column

October 18, 2013

"We’re not through with these characters yet. It’s a testament to Hemphill’s talent that we want more, a lot more, of them."

Arlene McKanic

September 9, 2013

"The world of high finance provides a thrilling setting for Hemphill’s fine debut. The author...clearly knows her way around Wall Street, but, more importantly, can make us care about her characters’ successes and failures, against a formidable backdrop rife with competition, backstabbing, and soul-searching."

Publishers Weekly

July 18, 2013

Buying In gets a shout-out in this article about a new wave of female protagonists on Wall Street.

Jessica Grose

June 28, 2013

6 Women Who Might Convince You Wall Street Could Make You a Better Writer

Emma Cueto

Advance Praise

"I read Buying In in one sitting. It sucks you into an adrenaline vortex, obliterating everything but the deal. Work swallows family, friends, and scruples. A gripping and thought-provoking read."

Anne-Marie Slaughter, 

author of “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, and the former Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State

"With assured prose, a compulsively readable plot, and insider savvy, Buying In offers a front-row seat to the downfall of Wall Street, with a terrific young heroine who outmans the men without sacrificing her soul."

Ayelet Waldman, 

author of Red Hook Road, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, Bad Mother and Daughter’s Keeper

"Laura Hemphill writes about Wall Street with the granular knowledge of an industry insider and the incisive empathy of an outsider. Buying In is an absorbing and affecting study of high finance and the toll it takes on one's non-capitalistic identity, with much to say about gender in the workplace, from a bright new literary talent."

Teddy Wayne, 

author of The Love Song of Jonny Valentine and Kapitoil

"Laura Hemphill deftly pulls off a hat trick, offering readers an insider’s clear-eyed take on the subprime lending crisis, a chilling look at the lives of women in banking, and a briskly entertaining coming of age story. You’ll be thinking about her complicated, conflicted heroine, Sophie Landgraf, long after you devour the novel’s final pages."

Joanna Smith Rakoff, 

author of A Fortunate Age

"In Buying In, Laura Hemphill provides us a ringside seat in the inner boardrooms of Manhattan's investment banks in the months just before the financial crash. As her whip-smart, charmingly naïve protagonist Sophie attempts to navigate a deal that will make or break her career (and perhaps decide the future of the bank itself), you can't help but root for her to succeed even as you fear she will. Hemphill effortlessly lays bare the complicated machinations of the banking industry with the breathless pacing of a thriller, and with remarkable assurance describes the very real pull between family and career, success and sacrifice, loyalty and self-preservation. A stunning debut which is sure to catapult the author onto must-read lists."

Allison Amend, 

author of A Nearly Perfect Copy