Help Wanted

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781324020448 Author(s): Adelle Waldman Format: Hardcover Language: English Year: 2024 Publisher: WW Norton & Co Pages: 288

Description: Every day at 3:55 a.m., members of Team Movement clock in for their shift at big-box store Town Square in a small upstate New York town. Under the eyes of a self-absorbed and barely competent boss, they empty the dayA?s truck of merchandise, stock the shelves, and scatter before the store opens and customers arrive. Their lives follow a familiar if grueling routine, but their real problem is that Town Square doesnA?t schedule them for enough hoursA?most of them are barely getting by, even while working second or third jobs. When store manager Big Will announces he is leaving, the members of Movement spot an opportunity. If they play their cards right, one of them just might land a management job, with all the stability and possibility for advancement that that implies. The members of Team MovementA?including a comedy-obsessed oddball who acts half his age, a young woman clinging on to her A?cool kidA? status from high school, and a college football hopeful trying to find a new pathA?band together to set a just-so-crazy-it-might-work plot in motion. Adelle WaldmanA?s debut novel was a breakout sensation, lauded by the Los Angeles Times as an A?exacting character studyA? with A?excellent and witty proseA? and described as A?incisive and very funnyA? by the Economist and A?brilliantA? by both NPRA?s Fresh Air and the Washington Post. In her long-awaited follow-up, Waldman brings her unparalleled wit and astute social observation to the world of modern, low-wage work. A humane and darkly comic workplace caper that shines a light on the odds low-wage workers are up against in todayA?s economy, Help Wanted is a funny, moving tale of ordinary people trying to make a living.

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