{"product_id":"momentum-is-a-lie-harry-holland-9798996165933","title":"Momentum Is a Lie","description":"\u003cp\u003eWill Chaffee has done everything right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt thirty-two he's built Sawbuck - a fintech platform serving the people the system was never designed to help - and just closed a billion-dollar Series A. He has the right apartment, the right woman on his arm, the right story to tell at the right dinners. His father's voice is underneath all of it, the way it always is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen a Peruvian prison cell strips everything away. No deal to close. No performance to give. Just a man named Mateo Quispe, a worn piece of paper, and a word Will doesn't have in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLa mecha. The wick. The part of the candle that was made, from the beginning, to carry the flame.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMomentum Is a Lie follows Will Chaffee from a Greenwich Christmas party in December 2008 - where he first understands that his father is performing too - through the launch, rise, and collapse of Sawbuck, and into the Peruvian prison cell that asks him to account for everything he built and everything he abandoned along the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA novel about what a man does when he has built everything he was told to want and discovered it was someone else's answer to someone else's question. About inherited identity, the gap between arrival and meaning, and what remains when the momentum finally stops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMomentum Is a Lie is Harry Holland's debut novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Harry Holland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798996165933\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Moonfly Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Harry Holland","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48659970130175,"sku":"9798996165933","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/momentum-is-a-lie-harry-holland-9798996165933","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}