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Although her youthful aspirations revolved around lofty matters of cultural criticism, Marina Zosya ended up spending most of her adult life – the 35 years preceding the events at the center of her true-crime memoir "I Built This Prison" - in academic and professional pursuits of economics, finance, and accounting. She has obtained advanced degrees in these disciplines on both sides of the Atlantic and continuously occupied senior and then executive financial positions at entrepreneurial commercial entities in the US. She even summarized her accumulated expertise into a system of fiscal-management principles in her "CFO Techniques" (Apress, 2011, as Marina Guzik) …
As it sometimes happens with white-collar breadwinners, none of that striving and reaching effected fulfillment, esteem, or contentment. In fact, it turned Marina, as she defined it herself in her blog, into one very (The) Frustrated CFO… And no cultural pursuits and intellectual experiences could mitigate the void… Her memoir’s recounting of the ensued metamorphosis - the deterioration, the downfall, and the reformation – is an integral part of her continuous atonement.
