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EIGHT SEPTEMBERS: WOMAN ON WALL STREET: 9/11 to LEHMAN is a gripping memoir that captures the tumultuous landscape of Wall Street through the eyes of a woman who lived and breathed its intensity during some of its most challenging years. Set amidst the turbulent days of Wall Street in the 2000’s, a young mother pursues her banking career at J.P. Morgan while managing personal and professional obstacles. Her story begins on the morning of 9/11 when she and her colleagues in downtown Manhattan survive the terrorist attacks and continue working to help stabilize the financial system—a matter of national security. Through years of escalating banking crises and family responsibilities, her senior executive role catapults her into the center of the 2008 financial meltdown where she is forced to face the contradictions in her life and her own personal meltdown. With unflinching honesty, vulnerability, and self-reflection, Buyers tells a story of struggle, resilience, and growth that will resonate with readers from any generation.

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EIGHT SEPTEMBERS: WOMAN ON WALL STREET, written in the style of a fast-paced novel, won the 2023 Florida Writers Association’s Royal Literary Palm Gold for unpublished memoir. Reviewers noted the “story was compelling and emotions raw,” “her voice brilliantly reflects a human quality that underpins her financial acumen,” and that the book has “good cadence, natural rhythm, and credible dialogue,” as well as “superior sensory descriptions.”

Readers gain a front row seat to world changing incidents from the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001 through the 2008 implosion of investment bank Lehman Brothers. Responsible for funding Wall Street brokerage firms’ daily activities, the author operated at the epicenter of these situations. Only a small percentage of people work in and understand this critical part of the US economy—even fewer are women. EIGHT SEPTEMBERS introduces and explains to readers this opaque universe by inviting them into her day-to-day life, where they witness the finance world’s headlines from the inside and experience the pressures of a working mother at the height of her career. Changes at the bank, in the industry, and in the economy ratchet up the stakes.

At the same time escalating crises invaded her professional life, the “three D’s” invaded her personal life—divorce, dementia and death. EIGHT SEPTEMBERS chronicles the rising tension as Buyers ricochets between New York, Hawaii, and Pennsylvania, attempting to care for her aging parents and young children while coping with ever larger predicaments at work and at home. The book explores the tension between internal needs and external demands, and the price we pay when things get out of balance.