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Margo’s Got Money Troubles: A Novel
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“Margo’s Got Money Troubles is the feel-good novel we need right now.” —The Washington Post
“[An] enormously entertaining and lovable book.” —Nick Hornby, New York Times Book Review
A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman’s attempt to navigate adulthood, new motherhood, and her meager bank account in our increasingly online world—from the PEN/Faulkner finalist and critically acclaimed author of The Knockout Queen.
As the child of a Hooters waitress and an ex-pro wrestler, Margo Millet’s always known she’d have to make it on her own. So she enrolls at her local junior college, even though she can’t imagine how she’ll ever make a living. She’s still figuring things out and never planned to have an affair with her English professor—and while the affair is brief, it isn’t brief enough to keep her from getting pregnant. Despite everyone’s advice, she decides to keep the baby, mostly out of naiveté and a yearning for something bigger.
Now, at twenty, Margo is alone with an infant, unemployed, and on the verge of eviction. She needs a cash infusion—fast. When her estranged father, Jinx, shows up on her doorstep and asks to move in with her, she agrees in exchange for help with childcare. Then Margo begins to form a plan: she’ll start an OnlyFans as an experiment, and soon finds herself adapting some of Jinx’s advice from the world of wrestling. Like how to craft a compelling character and make your audience fall in love with you. Before she knows it, she’s turned it into a runaway success. Could this be the answer to all of Margo’s problems, or does internet fame come with too high a price?
Blisteringly funny and filled with sharp insight, Margo’s Got Money Troubles is a tender tale starring an endearing young heroine who’s struggling to wrest money and power from a world that has little interest in giving it to her. It’s a playful and honest examination of the art of storytelling and controlling your own narrative, and an empowering portrait of coming into your own, both online and off.
“A wholly original novel. . . . Thorpe is both poetic and profound in the way she brings her remarkable story to an end.” —The Associated Press
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Margo’s Got Money Troubles: A Novel
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P. caires –
This book made me fall in love with Thorpe’s storytelling all over again. When I finished, my urge was to turn back to the beginning and start reading again. She is a master-crafter, combining a compelling story with twists in narrative form that enhance meaning. Personally, this is my favorite of her books. There are so many nuggets of wisdom, but it’s also a page-turner that will keep you awake reading under the covers. I found the arc of the main character particularly pertinent. You will be entertained, and you will learn something about the world, and that is what good fiction is all about!
writeoncindy –
Margot makes a series of very poor life choices. When we meet Margot’s parental units, it becomes clear she never had a chance. Nonetheless, she bucks up and plows ahead. I loved the irreverent style and the quirky adventures in this novel – it is a very entertaining read.
Brandon Whitfeld –
This book is a pleasure to read! The author weaves a tale that is funny and flawed and imperfectly perfect. The characters are colorful and the chapters fly by.
Ann Spence –
Loved this book! I pre-ordered as a gift for myself and when I received the book and read the description I thought I must have been in a weird mood that day. But this book is soooo good!! Captivating, makes you think, and has great lines that made me laugh out loud and send to friends.
Janet E –
Like most of us, Margo is a bundle of conflicted emotions struggling to find her way in life. Her journey from a pathetic, hopeless young woman to taking charge of her life and finding the self-courage to turn the tables is a rough ride fraught with turmoil, quirky characters, and her baby. It’s a fresh and troubling story, filled with laughs, but clawing back the curtain of desperation.
angela from Toronto –
Unfortunately this book was not for me. The only person a has any empathy for was Margo but even then I thought she went about the things the wrong way.
Bronwen Parry –
I literally cannot put this book down. I am positively in love with Margo. Rufi Thorpe really knows how to tell a story and her writing is so crisp, so fresh, so compelling. Best read in a very long time. Easily 5 Stars.
ll –
Just a fantastic novel and expertly written. Funny, perceptive and personal.
I look forward to reading it again along with tracking down everything else Rufi Thorpe has written.
Anonymous –
I read it in one day and it was a day well spent! Even though the author often breaks the fourth wall, reminding us that we are reading about made-up characters, she makes them feel so real, that I was really drawn in.
Avalon Eden –
Being I am in my sixties I really didn’t think I could get into a book about Only Fans. However, I’m still a contemporary woman. This story is about so much more than that. It’s shows a flawed and decent young woman traveling through her young adult life having to make some tough decisions. In the end the story shows an intelligent, strong and empathetic woman who is making a good life for herself and not judging herself so harshly. We are mostly all doing the best we can do.
JasonBillings –
Not as witty as it tried to be and the romance just didn’t work for me however still a worthwhile read.
writeoncindy –
I fell in love with Rufi Thorpe after reading TheKnockoutQueen (Vintage) and couldn’t wait for her next novel. It’s arrived and time to celebrate. Margo’sGotMoneyTroubles (WilliamMorrow) has been published and it’s as smart and wickedly funny as “Knockout” – perhaps more.
Margo doesn’t have anything working for her. She dropped out of college, because her professor got her pregnant not knowing what it takes to be a parent, she naively decides to keep the baby with no job prospects which means no money.
Margo can’t count on any help from her mother. She’s searching for a meal ticket and a life of her own. Margo has never met her father, a professional wrestler named Jinx. On the eve of her eviction, dad shows up and offers childcare for a place to stay.
Margo comes up with a plan to make money. She creates an OnlyFans website. Using some of her father’s suggestions from the wrestling world she creates a highly likeable character and it’s a success. But fame and fortune come with a high price Margo’s not sure she can handle.
Margo’s Got Money Troubles is a delightful story you’ll want to tell all your friends about. You’ll find yourself rooting for Margo and all of the other characters in this quirky novel.
I can’t wait to read what Rufi writes next.
Peter Saucerman –
This definitely wasn’t The Knockout Queen, but Margo proved another strong vessel for Thorpe’s way with dark, razor sharp humor. I found the book enjoyable without ever getting lost in it, and though the story was charming I found the prose strangely dense, with an odd insistence on keeping the proceedings upbeat. I kept putting the book down as it never drew me in fully. I sensed struggle in the writing process to uncover a story, and I sensed struggle in the editorial process to draw out and sustain a plot.
Margo makes a somewhat raggedy decision to keep a baby at 20 years old after having an affair with her college professor – and then has no idea how to take care of it and afford her existence as a new mom. The book picks up momentum after CPS and her baby’s biological father get involved once Margo finds success with OnlyFans, but while the book itself is wholly likeable, many of the characters were either too thinly sketched or unbelievable. The college professor was SO spineless, Margo’s mother was SO awful, her pro wrestling dad was SO well-meaning, the love interest was SO hunky and perfect…it was like Thorpe picked a single adjective for every character and ran away with them. At times, the voice was outright cloying it was distracting, which I never found in Thorpe’s writing before.
Ultimately, the book just didn’t have a tight enough storyline to really make it something special. I also (and this is a first) hated the font used for the text and disliked the maniacal, sloppy cover art, just none of the production choices seemed to do this novel any favors. Everything kept pushing me away.
A good litmus test to see if Margo is for you is to flip to the end and read the acknowledments first. They are so whacked out and overlong and hyperbolic, I couldn’t tell if they were brilliant, the best acknowledgments ever written, or if Thorpe had done like…six lines of coke before banging them out. Like much of the book.