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    612-822-4611

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Temporary

Temporary

Leichter, Hilary

Paperback

Series: Emily Books

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 1566895669
ISBN13: 9781566895668
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: Mar 3 2020
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Eighteen boyfriends, twenty-three jobs, and one ghost who occasionally pops in to give advice: Temporary casts a hilarious and tender eye toward the struggle for happiness under late capitalism.

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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