Rumaan Alam: Entitlement

Saturday Morning

Best-selling author, Rumaan Alam, is turning the spotlight on wealth in his new book Entitlement. This follows his pandemic hit, Leave the World Behind, which was shortly followed by a movie adaptation for Netflix starring Julia Roberts and Mahershala Ali. In Entitlement, Alam captures the experience of living in one of the most expensive cities in the world, New York, and how people without trust funds get bent out of shape, pretending to be rich, to fit in. It's about self-delusion, magical thinking, and the American dream - minus the white picket fence.