The Glass Hotel

Vincent is a bartender at the Glass Hotel, or as it's first called, Hotel Caiette. It's a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the night she meets Alkaitis, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the lobby's glass wall. It reads "Why don’t you swallow broken glass?"

Alkaitis's billion-dollar hedge fund empire is nothing more than smoke and mirrors. When his scheme collapses, it obliterates countless fortunes and devastates lives (like a Madoff figure). Vincent, who had been posing as Jonathan’s wife, walks away into the night.

Someone hires a victim of the fraud to investigate a strange occurrence. A woman has seemingly vanished from the deck of a container ship between ports of call.
 
We visit campgrounds for the near-homeless, underground electronica clubs, luxury hotels, and life in a federal prison.

The Glass Hotel is Emily St. John Mandel's captivating portrait of greed and guilt. The ghost of unintended consequences is omnipresent, as is the infinite ways we search for meaning in our lives.