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Paperback. Everyone assumed she would take the throne. She took a storefront on Telephone Road instead - and found out that going legitimate is the hardest hustle of all.One year after her husband is killed on a Houston sidewalk, Adaira Boone is thirty-eight, the widow of a man whose name still opens doors she never wanted opened. His lieutenants want her to sit in his chair. His mother wants his name kept alive. His cousin wants something worse. And her sixteen-year-old daughter has decided that being somebody's daughter is the most interesting thing about her.Adaira wants a laundry.Not a metaphor - an actual commercial laundry, eleven thousand square feet of cracked concrete with three-phase power and a gas line big enough for a boiler, paid for with the only clean money she has: thirteen years of a car wash, a life insurance policy, and forty-one thousand dollars she earned herself, one set of books at a time.What follows is the unglamorous truth about starting over: seven banks that say no, a lender who says maybe, a reconditioned boiler that fails at 4:52 in the morning, a bookkeeper who takes exactly small enough amounts to never get noticed, an old friend who keeps helping in ways she can never write down, and a daughter who romanticises everything her mother is trying to bury.CLEAN MONEY is a novel about the arithmetic of leaving - and about the difference between being fed by a man and being paid by a business.WHAT'S INSIDE- A single close-third point of view that never leaves Adaira's side- A financial-independence spine built on real numbers: cost per pound, concentration policy, debt service coverage, a payroll that has to clear on Tuesday- Houston as a working city - Telephone Road, Griggs, Missouri City, the bayou after rain- Four unforgettable women on a laundry floor, and the sixty-seven-year-old who runs the ironer- Restrained on-page violence; the danger here is quieter and lands harder- A mother-daughter reckoning that refuses easy answers about a dead man- Book club discussion questions included After losing her husband to violence, a widow rejects a criminal legacy to build a legitimate life through the grueling reality of small business ownership. It is a gritty exploration of reclaiming autonomy and the true cost of starting over. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…
N° de ref. del artículo 9785734285077
- Título
- Clean Money (Paperback)
- Autor
- Marisela Ondrey
- Editorial
- Marisela Ondrey
- Año de publicación
- 2026
- Estado
- new
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 10
- 5734285072
- ISBN 13
- 9785734285077
Everyone assumed she would take the throne. She took a storefront on Telephone Road instead - and found out that going legitimate is the hardest hustle of all.
One year after her husband is killed on a Houston sidewalk, Adaira Boone is thirty-eight, the widow of a man whose name still opens doors she never wanted opened. His lieutenants want her to sit in his chair. His mother wants his name kept alive. His cousin wants something worse. And her sixteen-year-old daughter has decided that being somebody's daughter is the most interesting thing about her.
Adaira wants a laundry.
Not a metaphor - an actual commercial laundry, eleven thousand square feet of cracked concrete with three-phase power and a gas line big enough for a boiler, paid for with the only clean money she has: thirteen years of a car wash, a life insurance policy, and forty-one thousand dollars she earned herself, one set of books at a time.
What follows is the unglamorous truth about starting over: seven banks that say no, a lender who says maybe, a reconditioned boiler that fails at 4:52 in the morning, a bookkeeper who takes exactly small enough amounts to never get noticed, an old friend who keeps helping in ways she can never write down, and a daughter who romanticises everything her mother is trying to bury.
CLEAN MONEY is a novel about the arithmetic of leaving - and about the difference between being fed by a man and being paid by a business.
WHAT'S INSIDE
- A single close-third point of view that never leaves Adaira's side
- A financial-independence spine built on real numbers: cost per pound, concentration policy, debt service coverage, a payroll that has to clear on Tuesday
- Houston as a working city - Telephone Road, Griggs, Missouri City, the bayou after rain
- Four unforgettable women on a laundry floor, and the sixty-seven-year-old who runs the ironer
- Restrained on-page violence; the danger here is quieter and lands harder
- A mother-daughter reckoning that refuses easy answers about a dead man
- Book club discussion questions included
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