FIVE PERCENT A YEAR
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FIVE PERCENT A YEAR Book 1
4 parts · 14 h 18 min
Newark, Sauk City and East Haven, 1929 to 2025.
FIVE PERCENT A YEAR Book 2
4 parts · 13 h 8 min
Philadelphia and Venice, California, 2002 to 2025. Seth Berkowitz bakes cookies in a rented house near the University of Pennsylvania and delivers them at two in the morning; Paige Mycoskie teaches herself to sew in a Venice garage and sells the results from a five-hundred-dollar booth at a street fair.
FIVE PERCENT A YEAR Book 3
4 parts · 16 h 1 min
Washington, 2006 to 2013. Three Georgetown seniors with a seven-page plan, no restaurant experience and no bank willing to lend to them open a 560-square-foot salad shop in a former hamburger shack on M Street.
FIVE PERCENT A YEAR Book 4
4 parts · 14 h 43 min
New York, Michigan and California, 1984 to 2026. Ouidad Wise borrows a thousand dollars at a time and opens the first American salon for curly hair. Brad Baxter licenses a lapsed inventor's patent and builds cat boxes by hand in a rented corner of a Michigan plant.
FIVE PERCENT A YEAR Book 5
4 parts · 13 h 58 min
San Francisco, Atlanta and the Carolina mill towns, 1993 to 2025. Bayard Winthrop spends fifteen years moving American production to Asia, is pushed out of a bag company in December 2010 for refusing to move any more of it, and sets out to build a sweatshirt in a country that had stopped making sweatshirts.
FIVE PERCENT A YEAR Book 6
4 parts · 13 h 2 min
Berkeley and Ojai, 1972 to 2026. A federal education statute twenty-seven words long opens school sports to girls, and seventeen years later one of the first girls through the door mails a catalog of women's athletic clothing out of a Berkeley garage and gets fifty-six replies, three of them from her mother.