Rumaan Alam's latest novel, Entitlement, follows a 33-year-old Black woman named Brooke Orr, who lands a job as a program manager at 83-year-old white billionaire Asher Jaffee’s charitable foundation and quickly becomes his protégé.

What follows is a searing portrait of need and worth, race and privilege, and the seductive, corrupting lure of extreme wealth. Alam sits down with ABC Radio National's Claire Nichols to discuss class, desire and what happens when we are driven by want rather than need.

Recorded live at Melbourne Writers Festival

Rumaan Alam's latest novel,&nbsp;Entitlement,&nbsp;follows a 33-year-old Black woman named Brooke Orr, who lands a job as a program manager at 83-year-old white billionaire Asher Jaffee&rsquo;s charitable foundation and quickly becomes his prot&eacute;g&eacute;. What follows is a searing portrait of need and worth, race and privilege, and the seductive, corrupting lure of extreme wealth. Alam sits down with ABC Radio National's&nbsp;Claire Nichols to discuss class, desire and what happens when we are driven by want rather than need.
Recorded live at Melbourne Writers Festival

Australia's boldest literary festival.

Melbourne Writers Festival

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