Odds Against Tomorrow
A dark satire about a gifted young statistician who is hired by a New York financial
consulting firm to calculate the probabilities of catastrophe scenarios--from ecological
collapse and climate change to global war and terrorism--and sell his schemes to corporations
who want to indemnify themselves against future disasters. As Mitchell immerses himself
in his own neurotic fears and falls into step with some of 21st century capitalism's
most destructive trends, an actual natural disaster overtakes Manhattan.
Oldenburg Book Club: 17 March 2016, Meeting Notes