So Much for That
2010 novel by Lionel Shriver / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
So Much for That is a 2010 novel by Lionel Shriver. The novel was shortlisted for the 2010 National Book Award for Fiction.[1]
The novel, a social satire, follows American entrepreneur Shep Knacker, as he is forced to pay for medical care for his wife, preventing him from following his goal of retiring to a third world country.[2][3] The novel exhaustively critiques the various problems created within society by the expensive nature of the American medical system, and the larger capitalistic economic system.[2][3][4][5]