Help Wanted A Novel

Adelle Waldman

eBook - 2024

Featured on Barack Obama's 2024 Summer Reading List • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Named a Best Book of the Year by Vogue, Vulture, ELLE, The New Yorker and The Economist • A Time Must-Read Book of 2024 • One of NPR's Books We Loved in 2024 • A Chicago Public Library Must-Read Book of 2024 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 t...he store opens and customers arrive. Their lives follow a familiar if grueling routine, but their real problem is that Town Square doesn't schedule them for enough hours—most of them are barely getting... more