Question
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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Summary
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo | 10/28/2023 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 7 | 14.29 | 100% | 43% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (South Central) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 67% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (UK) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
Data
| Columbia A | Swarthmore | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| JHU A | Cornell B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell A | JHU B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU | PItt | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia B | RIT | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Rutgers | John Jay A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UMD A | UMD B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |