An open discussion of Mark Sundeen's biography of Daniel Suelo titled The Man Who Quit Money and the timely questions it raises about how we choose to live. What is “work”? What is the right way to think about money, possessions, reward? How can we live more simply and meaningfully? In the spirit of the book’s subject, discussion participants will receive a free copy a few weeks before the event on the 31st.

The Man Who Quit Money:
In the autumn of 2000, Daniel Suelo deposited his life savings - all thirty dollars of it - in a phone booth. He has lived without money ever since. And he has never felt so free, or so much at peace. “My wealth never leaves me,” he says. “Worrying about what could or should happen is a worse illness than what could or should happen.”

In The Man Who Quit Money, author Mark Sundeen tells the amazing story of how one man learned to live, sanely and happily, without earning, receiving, or spending a single cent. Suelo doesn’t pay taxes, or accept food stamps or welfare. He lives in caves in the Utah canyonlands, forages wild foods and gourmet discards, and accepts what is freely given him. He no longer even carries an I.D. Yet he manages to fulfill amply not only basic human needs - for shelter, food, and warmth - but, to an enviable degree, the universal desires for companionship, purpose, and spiritual engagement.

Sundeen retraces the surprising path and guiding philosophy that led Suelo, step by step, from an idealistic childhood through youthful disillusionment to his radical reinvention of “the good life.” The Man Who Quit Money encourages us to question the decisions we all make - by default or by design - about how we live. And it inspires us to imagine how we might live better.