Payback : debt and the shadow side of wealth

Author and poet Atwood looks at debt, which she describes as air - something we take for granted until things go wrong, and then, while gasping for breath, become very interested in. While not a book about practical debt management or high finance, although it does touch upon these subjects, it is an investigation into the idea of debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human societies.