"In 1998, Dominique Mielle joined Canyon Partners, then a small, little-known hedge fund. The job was trading distressed securities and high yield bonds, known back then, respectively, as vulture investing and junk bonds. Over the span of two decades, she rose to the top of the firm as the only female partner and senior portfolio manager--in what became one of the largest hedge funds in the U.S. Damsel in distressed explores the inner workings of hedge funds while exposing what it takes to succeed as a woman investor"--Back cover

Happy as a clown. On the buy-side ; Sharp focus ; Guessing game -- Early days. Grapes of wealth ; Voltaire versus Vanderbilt ; Reasonable beyond doubt -- Embracing otherness. Foreign "idears" ; My mother's dreams -- Standing up. Open seas of investing ; "Cooperation -- Swimming in opportunities. Telecom implosion ; Field day or blood bath? ; WorldCom toothache -- EETC encounter. Becoming the man ; Titanic is not a plane -- Industrial age. A fork in the roadshow ; A foot in the door ; Morning bourbon. Scrappy no more. Tales of excess ; Leo's friend ; French motto ; Tipping point ; Goodbye to 90210 -- Murder on the Orient Express. A September to remember ; Panic attacks ; Wanted: Wall Street -- Rebound begins. Same, but different ; Changing the model ; Buffett's bet ; Personal endeavors -- Room at the top. All about CLOs ; Not bad, good! ; Dialing for dollars -- On the road. Just rich enough ; Spaghetti and pachyderm ; Big in Japan ; Married with children -- Outsider has left the building. Dodd-Frank conundrum ; One heckuva epitaph ; Trump bump...to sexism ; That's that -- End of an era. Blinders come off ; When size matters ; Institutionalized sexism ; Cashing out ; Mother of the year ; A day without women