Help Wanted A Novel

Adelle Waldman

eBook - 2024

One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the Summer A Best Book of the Year in Vogue, Vulture, Elle, and Economist A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Poignant, funny, stealthily ambitious." —Michelle Goldberg, New York Times From the best-selling author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. comes a funny, eye-opening tale of work in contemporary America. 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 day's truck of merchandise, stock the shelves, and scatter before the store opens and customers arrive. Their lives follow a familiar if grueli...ng routine, but their real problem is that Town Square doesn't schedule them for enough hours—most of them are barely getting by, even while working second or third jobs. When store manager Big Will... more