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Alexander Tingle, director of technology, media, and telecom investment banking, UBS Investment Banking
Tingle s partner, who is also a banker, once recommended he read A Little Life, the haunting, critically acclaimed novel by Hanya Yanagihara that was published in 2015 and centers on ambitious young men who move to New York City. I loved it, Tingle said, admitting with a laugh that he s not the most avid reader, but A Little Life has stuck with him and not only because it s set in New York, where he s now building his career.
One of the central characters, a successful go-getter, is struggling with his mental health throughout the story. For Tingle, he was inspired by that character s portrayal and brought to mind mental health-related stigmas that persist in some workplaces, especially for people in cutthroat positions.