Damsel in Distressed Format: Hardback

"Like Liar's Poker, the 1989 first person expose of Wall Street that launched Michael Lewis's literary career, Damsel in Distressed is an often-hilarious romp through the jungles of high finance." — Wall Street Journal

The hedge fund industry is a boys' club, with hardly any female success stories to turn to. Damsel in Distressed is one of those rare, humorous, and inspiring stories. In 1998, Dominique Mielle joined Canyon Partners—a small, little-known hedge fund. The job was trading distressed securities and high yield bonds, known back then, respectively, as vulture investing and junk bonds.

Over the span of two decades, she rose to the top of the firm as the only female partner and senior portfolio manager—in what became one of the largest hedge funds in the U.S. Damsel in Distressed explores the innerworkings of hedge funds while exposing what it takes to succeed as a woman investor.

One of the only senior women in the hedge fund business, Dominique Mielle was a partner and portfolio manager at Canyon Capital, a $25 billion fund, where she worked for twenty years. Ms. Mielle was a contributing author to “Security Analysis, 7th Edition” by Graham and Dodd. She was named one of the “50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds” by The Hedge Fund Journal in association with EY in 2017. She is a Forbes contributor and serves on the board of several public corporations.