There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

There's No Such Thing as an Easy JobBy: Kikuko Tsumura "[A] 21st century response to Herman Melville's 'Bartleby, the Scrivener.'" NPR A thought provoking, drily funny critique of capitalism and the systems of self worth that are built around it. TIME, Must Read Books of the Year A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits: it is close to her home, and it requires no reading, no writing, and ideally, very little thinking. Her first gig

state politics

Once known as the western coast of the United States

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fully rendered environmental shots

Lola eventually chooses the egg-and-spoon race and succeeds at it by really

and neither are the unexpected comforts of Lake Sullivan

she tried again and passed

and dealing with an ill-timed magical cold

But he’ll be seven soon and he should be at school

By focusing on simple

the Ford Thunderbird

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