- American literature, New York Times reviewed, Single women, fiction, Fiction, humorous
A young woman's workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own. Whether it's shining an endless closet of shoes, swabbing the deck of a pirate ship, assisting an assassin, or filling in for the Chairman of the Board, for the mythical Temporary, “there is nothing more personal than doing your job.”
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Contemporary, comic, open-ended and cool.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Hilary Leichter
- First published
- 2020
- Pages
- 200
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, Limited, Coffee House Press, Brilliance Audio
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781721353484
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