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Help wanted : a novel / Adelle Waldman.

ISBN: 9781324020448
ISBN: 132402044X
Physical Description: 276 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : W. W. Norton &amp; Company, [2024]
Copyright: &copy;2024

Summary:

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 grueling 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 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 Movement -- including a comedy-obsessed oddball who acts half his age, a young woman clinging on to her “cool kid” status from high school, and a college football hopeful trying to find a new path band together to set a just-so-crazy-it-might-work plot in motion. -- Provided by publisher.