Madeleine Henry

Madeleine Henry uses professional experience in finance and a sustained yoga practice to give her fiction an unusually specific workplace perspective. Breathe In, Cash Out, her debut, follows an investment-banking analyst who hopes to exchange an exhausting Wall Street routine for teaching yoga. Atria Books presents the novel as a sharp, comic contrast between two cultures with very different languages and measures of success. Henry has explained that her own work at Goldman Sachs and in healthcare investment management helped her build the financial setting, while the character’s story remains fictional. Her second novel, The Love Proof, turns toward questions of love, space, and time, broadening her focus to characters whose intellectual ambitions compete with more personal forms of fulfillment.