Suits: A Woman on Wall Street

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No class can prepare anyone for a career on Wall Street. While others in Nina Godiwalla's Persian?Indian immigrant community were content to fulfil their parents' dreams, Nina's fierce ambition pulled her from Houston to New York to become a banker. The rarefied taste of power left her hungry for more. Showered with Broadway tickets and ferried around in sleek black town cars, Morgan Stanley recruits led a fast and flashy lifestyle, but at a steep cost. In a world where strip clubs took the place of conference rooms, Nina was driven to fit the mould of her fellow recruits: wealthy, white and male. But would she have to lose her Southern accent and suppress her family's heritage to prove her worth on the trading floor? In the tradition of Michael Lewis's Liar's Poker, Nina Godiwalla offers a behind?the?scenes look at the recklessness that ruled Wall Street during the dot?com boom days. But Suits is also a story of the family Nina left behind: a story of fathers and daughters, the pursuit of honour, swapping your grandmother's shrimp curry for takeout sushi and cocktails. Funny, candid and occasionally heartbreaking, Suits reveals how much we've been conditioned to trade for success.

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Nina Godiwalla has written for the Washington Post, the Houston Chronicle and the Austin Business Journal. Before founding MindWorks, which teaches professionals meditation and stress management, she worked for Morgan Stanley and Johnson & Johnson. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, Dartmouth College and the Wharton School of Business, she lives in Austin, Texas. For more information, please visit www.ninagodiwalla.com.