Having and Being HadCelebrated writer Eula Biss pens a collection of personal essays on capitalism, class and consumerism. A timely and arresting new look at affluence by a consistently surprising writer. My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts, Eula Biss writes, the time before I owned a washing machine and the time after. Having just purchased her first home, she now embarks on a roguish and risky self audit of the value system she has bought into. The