In an autobiographical novel by this author, the narrator's father specifies the pronunciation of his own surname over a phone call with his heart surgery patient, a businessman named Donald Trump. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author, who described the rise of debt in that novel including his hedge fund manager friend Riaz. In a play by this man, Robert Merkin, whose business motto is "debt is an asset," takes over a steel manufacturer.
ANSWER: Ayad Akhtar [the novel is Homeland Elegies, and the play is Junk.]
[10e] This author examined the "sinful" characterization of debt in her nonfiction book Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth. She also wrote the dystopian novel Oryx and Crake.
ANSWER: Margaret Atwood [or Margaret Eleanor Atwood]
[10m] To pay off her student loans, Vincent joins Jonathan Alkaitis' Ponzi scheme in this author's 2020 novel The Glass House. She won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for her post-apocalyptic 2014 novel Station Eleven.
ANSWER: Emily St. John Mandel
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