The Emily Books Series - Book 1
Temporary
“[A] delirious and deeply humane satire…Temporary has the manic, goofing energy of a lounge act.”
Wall Street Journal
Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
A Tor.com Reviewers' Choice of Best Books of 2020
In Temporary, 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.”
This riveting quest, at once hilarious and profound, will resonate with anyone who has ever done their best at work, even when the work is only temporary.
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