- Women journalists, fiction, Asian americans, fiction, Dating (social customs), fiction, Man-woman relationships, fiction
"The plan is to leave. As for how, when, to where, and even why--she doesn't know yet. So begins a journey for the twenty-four-year-old narrator of Days of Distraction. As a staff writer at a prestigious tech publication, she reports on the achievements of smug Silicon Valley billionaires and start-up bros while her own request for a raise gets bumped from manager to manager.
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Contemporary, classical in form, character-led and intimate.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Alexandra Chang
- First published
- 2020
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- HarperCollins B and Blackstone Publishing, Ecco, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780062951809
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